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REMAINS OPEN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. EVERY 
CONVENIENCE, INCLUDING HOT AND COLD 
SEA WATER BATHS, AND PASSENGER 
ELEVATOR. 



THE A. B. ROBERTS CO. 



Hotel 



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OCEAN END OF 
MICHIGAN AVENUE. 



Hot and Cold Sea Water Baths in the House. Hydraulic 
Passenger Elevator. Improved Sanitary Appointments. 
Heated throughout the Winter and Spring Seasons. Open 
all the Year. 



JOSEPH H. BOTTOM, 

PROPRIETOR. 



Pleasure Trips 

. . . BY . . . 

RAIL AND BOAT 

West Jersey & Seashore 
Railroad Co. 

Announces the Opening of the 

RAIL AND BOAT SERVICE 

BETWEEJ ~~ 

ATLANTIC CITY, LONG PORT a 
BY ELECTRI 



Delightful Excursions Along the Ci 
Harbor Ba 



Time Tables may be procure* 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 



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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



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HOTEIi ST. CHARLES 

The Ltatest Conception of a 
Seashore Hotel 



THE ST. CHARLES has one of the finest locations in Atlantic City. It is 
directly on the ocean front, at the foot of St. Charles Place, about two 
hundred feet from the breakers, and from its verandas there is an unob- 
structed view up and down the beach, and seaward as far as the eye can reach. 
It is in the most fashionable part of Atlantic City, and within easy access of the 
railroad stations and all points of interest. The building is the 

MOST ARTISTIC IH ATLiA^TIC CITY 

and is thoroughly modern in all its appointments. Its 200 guest chambers include 

Forty f^ooms En Suite uuith Private Bath 

having fresh and salt water connections. In addition there are 20 unattached 
bath rooms for general use. 

The Heating, Lighting and Sanitary Appointments are the 

latest and most approved, being introduced under the personal supervision of a 
well-known expert in engineering. 

The heating is by a one-pipe overhead system, with vacuum air and return 
pipes. Each radiator can be adjusted to any temperature desired, the same as by 
the hot water system, but without any of the latter's disadvantages. It is the only 
plant of the kind in Atlantic City, and is the latest develo] ment of the vacuum 
system as introduced in many of the new hotels in the large cities. 

The Electric Plant of the St. Charles is a particular feature, costing 
upwards of $15,000. 

The water supply is furnished by an 

EVEf^FliOWlflG A^TESIA^i WELiU 

on the premises, bringing the water, crystal pure, from a depth of 1,000 feet. 
Two four-inch pipes running through the house and the latest fire escapes pro- 
vide abundant protection against fire. 

The Appointments and Service, two important factors in the make- 
up of a first-class hotel, receive every attention at the hands of the proprietor. 
There are elevators, sun parlors, ladies' and gentlemen's waiting ro< ms, smoking 
rooms, cafe facing the ocean, ball and music room (60 x7s feet), large dining 
room (seating 500), reception halls, etc. A notable feature in the arrangement of 
the interior is that the smallest guest room is 14. x 17 feet. 

The furniture, carpets, draperies, and decorations are the finest that money 
can secure, and are strictly in keeping with the general elegi.nce of the hotel. 

The builder and owner of this magnificent seashore h.istelry is JAMES 
B. REILLY, to whom applications for rooms or terms may be addressed. 

SCC VICW OPPOSITE PAGE 62. 







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f>otcl 

£raymore 



Appointments Complete. 
Location Unexcelled. 



D. 5. WHITE, Jr. 



See View opposite Page 




Hotel 
Imperial 



gottages 



Remodeled. 



Ocean End Maryland Avenue. 

Refurnished. Capacity Doubled. 



Strictly first=class. Every modern convenience and comfort of 
a summer or winter home. Large rooms. Table unexcelled. 
$200 to $3.00 per day; $10 00 to $iS.oo per week. Special 
rates to families and parties fir the season. Eighth year. 



150 Feet Sun Parlor. 



G. \V. KENDRICK, Owner and Proprietor. 



ILK oman, 



Ocean End 
St. Charles Place. 



Open all the year. Capacity J 00. American 
and European plan. Rooms en suite with pri- 
vate baths. 

A. B. ALEXANDER. 



Galen Hall 

Cor. Pacific and Connecticut Aves. 



A SANATORIUM 
With all the Luxuries of a First=class Hotel 

ELEVATOR, ELECTRIC BELLS, 
MASSAGE BATHS, ELECTRICITY, ETC. 



OPEN ALL THE YEAR. 



For Illustrated Circular, address 

WM. H. H. BULL, M.O. 
SCHLECHT & MEHRER, 

PROPRIETORS OF 

Sebaafler's Hotel and SehaufleF's Garden 

PROMENADE CONCERTS at the Garden every night during July and 
August. 

PAVILION AND FIRST-CLASS CAFE AT THE INLET. Covered Pavil- 
ion at the Garden. Music rain or shine during summer. 



Runnymede 



Kentucky Avenue near the Beach. 

Open all the Year. 

Terms Moderate. MRS. I. MclLWAlN. 

ATLANTIC COAL COMPANY, 

New York and Baltic Avenues. 

L. W WASHBURN, Manager. 

FULL WEIGHT AND QUALITY GUARANTEED. 

FRANK A. SOUDER, contr " t °; d BUIt0EB . 

Estimates and Plans Furnished. No. 1013 Arctic Avenue. 



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Pennsylvania Jlvenue 

ouse 



Overlooking the Ocean 

Enlarged and Refurnished Throughout 



Sun Gallery. Elevators. Sea-Water Baths in the 

* **Mt1ttl>1 itnrK House. Enclosed walk of glass from Hotel to Beach. 

£j vUmilKUtllkn* Billiard room and all the appointments of a first-class 

/+\\ «r^250 6iUC$t$ house. Coach meets all trains. Ocean parlor on the 

' beach, free to guests. Telegraph and long-distance 

telephone in the house. 



CHARLES EVANS 

See view opposite Page 92 C>Open all the Year. 

flRIilNGTOH HOTEL*, 

Sea-End Michigan Avenue. Open Every Day in the Year. 

Large, Luxurious rooms. Everything New. 
Open grate fires. Steam heat. 

Send for Illustrated Booklet. HARRY W. PURCHASE. 

Telephone 177, connecting with long distance. See View opposite P^e - 

HOTEL SENATE, 

Pacific Avenue Fronting the Ocean. Open all the Year. 

Passenger Elevator from level of the street. 



H. B. COOK & SON. 



THE LtEHPflfl, 

Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Beach 
F. W. LEHMAN & CO. 




Lighthouse and Life Saving Station. 



Hot and Cold Sea and 

Fresh UJaten Baths. 



E. ROBHRTS' SONS. 



^The Chalfonte^- 

Sea End of fiorth Carolina Ave. 

«*> 

Sun Parlors. 

Passenger Elevator. 
See Vietu Opposite Page 82. 

The Irvington. 

On the Beach. Elevator, Steam Heat, Filtered Uiater, Sun 
Parlor, Billiard and JVIusie Rooms. 

CHAMBERS & HOOPES. 

The Chetuuoode, 

PACIFIC flflD INDIANA flVBS. 

Easy of aeeess from both railcuays, and near the Beaeh. 
Telephone 299. 

H. V. YOIR^. 

Hauuthorn Inn, 

SOUTH VIRGINIA HVEflUe, pear the Beaeh. 

Neuj house, delightfully situated. Persons requiring special 
diet uuill reeeive most eareful attention. 

OPEN flUIi THE YEAR. M^S. }i. W. flARTIlEY. 



Hotel 
Islescuorth 

VIRGINIA AVENUE 

Directly on the Beaeh 



A Modern Hotel 
/Ninth Season under same 

Management 

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A. C McCLELLA/N 

:*ee \ iew opposite Page roa. 

AUGUST STEUBEK 

Fancy and Staple Grocer 

Cor. Kentucky and Atlantic Avenues 

Telephone N. 

GEO. C FELKE-R 

House and Sign "Painter 

Paints. Oils, and Window Glass 
No. 9 South Kentucky Avenue 

COTy & ALBEKTSO/N CO. 

Hardware and Builders' Supplies 

Stoves. Rooting. Metal Work, Steam and Hot W.uer He.uers. Dumbing 

202S Atlantic Avenue 

Telephone *;. 




DIRECTLY ON THE BEACH. 



Hot and Cold Sea Water Baths. 

Heated Sun Parlor and Pavilion on Boardwalk. 



Open Every Month in the year. 



See View Opposite Page 42. 



J. WHITE, 

Owner and Manager. 



HOT AND COLD BATHS GOOD SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS. 

HOTEL MASCOT, 

Pacific Avenue, between Arkansas and Missouri, Facing Ocean. 
One Block from Reading Depot. Two Minutes' Walk from Beach. 

Hotel Accommodations at Cottage Rates. l^u^JZy. 

100 Airy Rooms, Well Lighted, Comfortable Beds, Excellent Food, Good Service. 

Sideboard. ANNEX, Refitted with Pool, Billiards, Shuffle 

Boards and Bowling Alleys— Free to Guests. 

SPECIAL RATES TO FAMILIES. 

Manager, George C. Speirs. MRS. L. E. RED1KER BROWNE. 

KIPPLE & McCANN'S 

New Hots? Cold Sea Water Baths 

On the Boardwalk, Ocean End of Ocean Avenue. 



500 ROOMS FOR SURF BATHERS. 

Th« most complete Hot and Cold Sea Water Bathing Establishment on the coast. The 
Crystal Maze, in connection with the Baths. Marvelous and Mystifying. 

KIPPLE & McCANN, Proprietors. 



EVERY SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT FOR THE SICK. 




Atlantie City Sanatorium. 

J. J. Rochford, Superintendent. 



FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. BOOKLET MAILED. 



The Algonquin 



Formerly The Mansion. 

Corner Atlantic and Pennsylvania Aves. 
Under New Management. Thoroughly Renovated, Refurnished and Decorated. 
American Plan, 5-. 50 per day and upwards. 

European Plan, Si. 00 per day and upwards. 
Cafe attached, cuisine and service first-class. 
Elevator. GEORGE A. BALLARD, Mgr. 



WALililNCFORD 



Pacific Avenue, Corner of Kentucky, 

Close to the Beach and Railroad Depots. 

Comfortable Rooms. First-class Table. Good Accommodations. 

Terms: $2.00 and up a day: 510.00 and up a week. 

Special Rates to Families. 

m. Mclaughlin. 





MJiPki^ 








Hotel fltglen 

Michigan Avenue, 

NEAR OEACH. 

OCEAN VIEW. 

OPEN ALL THE YEAR. 

Strictly first-class family 
House. A 1 modern improve- 
ments. Special rates to fami- 
lies. $8.00 to $12.00 a week, 
$1.50 to $2.00 per day. 

J. E. REED. 



JOHN S. TAYLOR, 

GemHl Oyster ■"«> 
HestaUFant Ice Cream 

& Bakery saloon 



1324=26 Atlantic Avenue. 



The Restaurant is conducted in first-class Style. 

Meals served at all hours. Reasonable rates. 



TELEPHONE 88. 



TO BE ENLARGED. 



Terms Moderate. 
First-class Table. 



Superior Accommodations. 



New York Exchange, 



CORNER 

Atlantic and New York Avenues. 



OPEN ALL THE YEAR. 
Two Squares from Pennsylvania Railroad Station. 



Hotel Stickney, 



KENTUCKY AVENUE, 

too Feet from the Ocean. 
L. V. STICKNEY. 
Steam heated for Fall anil Spring. £g to $14 per week. Transient $2 to $2. 50 per day. 



The Waldorf, 



NEW YORK AVE., near the Beach. 
H. E. WRIGHT. 

Steam heat, electric bells, handsomely furnished and perfect sanitary arrangements. 
Open all the year. 

1VT~— ^~A KENTUCKY AVE., second house from Beach. 

NOrWOOd, F.ALSFELT. 

Appointments fust-class. Steam heat. Open all the yeir. Location very desirable. 

TTHa OcKrkfnP* C ° r Pacific and Arkansas Avenues. 

1 II t UhUUrriC^ One Square from Reading Depot and Beach. 

Modern improvements, including Electrical Elevator, Electric Bells, etc. Kates : Daily. $1.50 
tofa.so. Weekly, £8 to $14. MRS. R. J. OSBORNE. 

The Manhattan, °" an ^!^K°";„. 

Open all the year. P. O. Box 359. M. A. MELONEY. 

VIRGINIA AVE., Fourth house from the Peach 
A. J. HOOD. 
Home comforts. Open all the year. 

D^^^U-,,^^^1 KENTUCKY AVENUE, near the Beach. 

Beechwood, M r S . v f. m n y 

Open all the year Entirely new. 

Hpi /"• .i-l~.J-~ — 141 OCEAN AVE., near the Beach. 

The Castleton, E . c . undsay. 

Newly and perfectly furnished in every appointment. Choice table. Open all the year. 

TENNESSEE AVENUE. 

NEAR BEACH. 
1 FOTHERGILL. 



The Whittier, 



Upton House, 



I ^ D~I1~ I — — SOUTH CAROLINA AVE., near Beach. 

La Belle Inn, mr S .s.l.sooy. 

Open all the year. Remodeled and Refurnished. 



Hotel Heckler, 



COR. ATLANTIC and 

PENNSYLVANIA AVES. 

am in Winter. HENRY HECKLER, Proprietor. 



Hotel Malatesta, 



Atlantic and North Carolina Aves. 
Open all the year. 

M. MALATESTA, Proprietor. I. K CAR MACK. Manager. 

Formerly Girard House, Philadelphia. 

w_| , * 1 • ^_^_g Cor. Illinois and Atlantic Aves. 

nOtei LOn^l nOlll J. R LONGINOTTI, Ownerand Prop. 

AND CAFE. European Plan Formerly of Hotel Malatesta). " Louie." 



Penn hurst, 



MICHIGAN AVENUE, NEAR THE OCEAN. 
TAMES HOOD. 



All conveniences, including electric elevator, electric lights, steam heat, etc. Open all the Yi 



The Revere, 



PARK AVENUE, NEAR BEACH. 
JAMES M. MOORE, 
Open all the year. 



U^-i-^l 0~--~, ^...J^K PACIFICAVE. above NEW YORK. 

Hotel Brunswick, mrs chas h sasse p rps 

Open all the year. Steam heat. Large rooms. Full ocean view. All modern improvements. 

NEW YORK AVE., nearthe Beach. 
DANIEL KNAUER. 

Central location. Modern Conveniences. Excellent Cuisine and Moderate rates. 



The Chester Inn, 



The Helos 



KENTUCKY AVENUE, NEAR BEACH. 
E. L. WEBSTER, Prop. 
Open all the year. A comfortable, home-like house. Perfect sanitation. Telephone 224. 

The Leedom, ,63 " 65 OCEAN ,*^r' ,he Beaoh 

This old established favorite house is now under the management of J. Treen, formerly 
of Vermont House It is pleasantly located, close to the Ocean Promenade, hot and cold sea 
water baths, and all places of interest. The house is heated throughout in winter; has all 
modern conveniences, perfect sanitation and large porches. Open all the year. 

, , VIRGINIA AVE., bet. Pacific Ave. and Beach. 

Desirably Located. 
Newly Furnished. Thoroughly Heated. Appointments First-Class. Open all the Year. 

108 SOUTH KENTUCKY AVENUE. 
M. B. WALKER. 



"The Ness, 



Park Cottage, 



Near the Beach. Open all the yeai 



Del Coronado, 



146 S. VIRGINIA AVE., near the Beach. 
MRS. L. DOUGHTY. 



irovements. Accommodations strictly first class. Open all the yea 



SOUTH CAROLINA AVENUE, 

Bet. Pacific and ihe Beach, 



The Castlemere, 

Open all the year. MRS. G. A. MASON. 

South Carolina Avenue and Boardwalk 
THOMAS BRADLEY, Prop. 
American Plan, $1.50 to $3.00 a day. $n>. 00 to #20.00 a week. Open all the year. 



Troy House, 



The Castle, 



NEW YORK AVE., Bet. Atlantic and Pacific. 
MRS. J. W. HARDCASTLK. 
Open all the year. 



SOUTH CAROLINA AVENUE. 
M. WILLIAMS. Proprietress. 
iOod ocean view. Hot and cold sea water baths in the house. Open all the year 



Victoria, 



I hC iVlcljeStiC, CHARLES S. HOL> 

Strictly fiist-class. Entirely modern. Steam he.it, el< 
upwards. Special week 

San Marcos Hotel, 



Hotel Stratford, 



OCEAN END VIRGINIA AVENUE. 

HOLMES, Manager. 

«trict!y first-class. Entirely modern. Steam he.it, electric light. Rates, $2.50 per day, and 
upwards. Special weekly rates. 

Pacific and Mass. Avenues. 
Open all the year. 

Elegant and modern in appointments. Steam heat, elevator, sun parlor, etc. Terms, $2.50 and 
$3.00 per day. Special rates by the week. Under supervision of MRS. ANNIE GRUBB. 

On the Beach at Kentucky Ave. 
WIEDEMER. 

All modern conveniences, including .1 lilt. European plan. 



The Lansdale, 



NORTH CAROLINA AVENUE, 

Near the Beach. 
F A. CANFIELD. 



The Portland, 



MARYLAND AVENUE AND BEACH. 
MRS. C. WARREN 

New house, handsomely furnished. Kveryihing first-class. 

Berkshire Inn NEVV YORKAVE - nearBeach 

UCI IN. >I I I I C 11111, Remove J from Virginia Avenue. 

Electric bells and all modern improvements. M. A. HOECKLEV. 

mm J • Hi-vnoo 2015 Pacific Ave., near Beach. 

1* lclCl 1 SOrl II OUSe, Between Michigan and Arkansas Aves. 

Terms: Daily $1 25 to $1.50. Weekly, #7.00 to 10.00. SAMUEL LAW, Prop. 

The Ruscombe, PACIFIC ™ eC ^r tucky ' 

Under new management. Beautiful situation. Appointments first-class. Steam heat, sun 
parlors. MRS. EMMOR G. GRIFFITH, MISS SUE P. BAKER. 

Thp W^tkinQ Former| y the Waltom - 

I 11C TV tlll\.lll>, 129 South Carolina Avenue. 

One-half Square from the Beach. S. V. \V ATKINS. Manager. 



The Glenwood, 



Kentucky and Pacific Avenues. 

E. KILPATRICK. 

Excellent table. Ocean view from even room. One minute to Beach. Convenientto 
Reading and Pennsylvania Depots. 

Hrki-£k1 ArVI COR. PACIFIC AND ARKANSAS AVENUES. 
nOTd r\llcl, One Square from Beach. 

Terms: Daily, f t.35 to fa.oo. Weekly, $8.00 to $14.00. JOHN REI1 1 

f\ • ^_ I I— I^v4-/-vl Formerly Trenton House. 

WriCntai nOlcI, Opposite W. J. R. R. Depot. 

ALBERT SCHNEPP, Proprietor, successor to Gus Reed. 

\S~ Y*r%\o?c H/A-f^kl Opposite Camden & Atlantic and 

K.UCnnie S nOlCl, West Jersey R. R. Depots. 

Open all the year. LOUIS K.UEHNLE, Prop. 



Saratoga Cottage, 



No. 22 S. South Carolina Ave. 
MRS. S. A. E. HAINKS 



Excellent Table. Terms Mode 



)J 136 SOUTH NEW YORK AVENUE. 

Three minutes walk from the Beach. 
Situation and Table unexcelled. MRS. ANNA C. BULLOCK. 

U^^-^l r?AZ~^~* MICHIGAN AVENUE, NEAR BEACH. 

Motel bdison, j.c.copkLand. 

Open all the year. Every convenience, including passenger elevator, steam heat and electrii 
bells. Ocean view from all rooms. 

OCEAN END OF SOUTH CAROLINA AVE., 
MRS. G. H. DALRYMPLE. 

MRS. V. P. AUDOUN. 



"Catskill, 



Hotel Idaho, 



Lakewood, 



SOUTH CAROLINA AVENUE, near the Beach. 
M. E. BRATTEN. 



Open all the y< 



Metropolitan, 



The Stanley, 



Cor. Atlantic and Massachusetts Aves. 
M. C. ANDREWS. 
Moderate terms. Many improvements made since last season. 

nrU^ A ~^UAnl^ 136 SOUTH MARYLAND AVENUE. 

1 he Archdale, MAR y j. bundy. 

An elegant house for win'er or summer. Two minutes' walk to the beach ; ocean view 
trom two sides of the house; heated with hot water radiatois; other modern improvenu nts ; 
newly furnished throughout. Open all the year. 

SOUTH CAROLINA AVE., near the Beach. 
J. A. HIGG1NBOTHAM. 
Steam heat, sun parlor, excellent cuisine. 



Summerlin, m. 



PENNSYLVANIA AVE., near the Beach. 
IS. C. V. CALDWELL, ol Summerlin House, 

Orlando, I'la. 
Centrally located on one of the highest points in the city. 

. . CHEVY CHASE . . 

Mt. Vernon Avenue, above Pacific. 

First-class Table, Homelike Accommodations, Reasonable Terms, Near Beach. 
. . . M. W. DONNALLY . . . 

Atlantic Lumber Company, 

George H. Lonu, Superintendent, 

Illinois Avenue between Atlantic and Arctic. 

. . . LUMBER AND MILL WORK . . . 

Well-Seasoned Frame Stuff and Siding;, Doors, Sash, Blinds, Shutters, Etc. 

Mouldings, Scroll Sawings, Turnings, and Brackets. Wood Woik of all Kinds. 



Young & JVIeShea's 

Iron Pier 

FOOT OF MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE. 

POLITE ATTENTION TO VISITORS. 

IS • >-» 

Young & JVIeShea's 

Ocean Piern^^ 

FOOT OF TENNESSEE AVENUE. 

und greatly enlarged. Two thousand feet long 
Pavili Q 8 - 

Meetings of every kind. 
and Good Fishing on the Outer 1 i 

Children under \2 vein ol age, 

and Baby Coaches and Attendant. fldlTliSSiOn. 10 CeiltS. 

5 Cents, Prof. Willard's Orchestra. 



4|a 



THOS. I. DICKERSON & CO., 

alters 



FU-R/NISHE-RS 

1332 and 1334 Atlantic Avenue. 

Fine Goods at Low Prices. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. 

■ ;:: ~'_ant c A 



L E. FREEMAN, 



Practical Plumber. Steam - Gas finer. 

^anitar> Plumbing and Drainage a Specialty Constants on hand a full line of 

Gas Fixtures and Globes. A^ent tor Florida Steam Heater. 

\ll repairs tor French Ranees in Mock. 

HENRY EREESE. 

Manufacturer of Picture Frames and Oil Paintings. 

Dealer in Window and Looking Glasses and Fancy Cabinet Ware. 
1819 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 



HESTON'S 
HAND BOOK 

01 

ATLANTIC CITY 



Origin of Atlantic City— Seashore Sketches— Winter and 

Summer Attractions— Memoranda and Ready 

Reference for Visitors. 



By A. M. HESTC 



ESTON. 



TENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION. 



1 have passed manye landes and many eyles and contrees, and cherched manye fulle straunge 
places, and have ben in manye a fulle Rode honourable companye. Thus recordynge the tyme 
passed, I have fulfilled these thynges and putte hem wryten in this boke, as it woulde come into 
my mynde. — Sir John Maindfa 11 i B. 



REVISED EDITION 
1896. 




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Municipal Register. 



Atlantie City Officials. 

Mayor FRANKLIN P. STOY, ... . Salary, $1,000. 

Term expires March 14, 1898. 
Recorder ROBERT H. INGERSOLL, . . . Salary, $1,000. 

Term expires March 15, 1897. 
Alderman JAMES D. SOUTHWICK, ... No Salary. 

Term expires March 15, 1897. 

City ScUcUor, . . . . ALLEN B. ENDICOTT, {^JZ^S. 

Term expires March 15, 1S97. 

City Treasurer, . . . JOHN A. JEFFRIES, Salary, $1,000. 

Term expires March 15, 1897. 

City Comptroller, . . ALFRED M. HESTON, .... Salary, $900. 

Term expires January 1, 1899. 

CUyCUrk EMORY D. IRELAN, j^S^ 

Term expires March 15, 1897. 
City Surveyor, . . . . JOHN P. ASHMEAD, . . . {^.ggg^ 

Term indefinite. 
Tax Collector, . . . . CARLTON GODFREY, . { Fees %^ a g 6oo . 

Term expires March 15, 1897. 

Mercantile Appraiser, JOHN W. PARSONS, { *!£& *£.?,* *£ 

Term expires June 1, 1897. 

Supervisor of Streets, BERIAH MATHIS, Salary, $1,000. 

Term expires April 15, 1897. 

Building Inspector, . SIMON L. WESTCOTT, ... Salary, $720. 

Term expires March 15, 1S97. 

Overseer of Poor, . . ROBERT DUNLEVY, Salary, $500. 

Term expires March 15, 1897. 
City Electrician, . . . C. WESLEY BRUBAKER, . . - Salary, $600. 

Term expires March 15, 1897. 

Chief of Police, . . . HARRY C. ELDRIDGE, . . . .Salary, $900. 

Term indefinite. 

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City Couneil. 

President of City Council, JAMES D. SOUTHWICK. 

First Ward, . . Albert Beyer. .... Term expires March 15, 1S97. 

Joseph C.Clement, . . " " " 15,1897. 

Edward F. Kline, " " " 14, 1898. 

Edwin A. Parker. . . " " " 13, 1899. 

Second Ward, .Edward S.Lee, ..." " " 15,1897: 

Joseph E. Lingerman, " " " 15, 1S97. 

Henry w. Leeds, ..." " " 14. [898. 

Enos F. Hann, ..." " " 13, 1899. 

Third Ward, . . George H. Long, ..." " " 15, 1897. 

Daniel Knaeer, . . " " " 15, 1S97. 

Somers L. Doughty, . " " " 14. r898. 

Sam eel B. Rose, ..." " " 13, 1S99. 

Fourth Ward, . Harry H. POSTOLL, . " " " 15. [897. 

Samuel Barton, . . " " " 15,1897. 

Frank L. Southrn, " " " 14. lS ^ s - 

William A. Ireland, . " " " 13, [899. 

City Marshal and Sergeant-at-Arms of Council, 

Cornelius S. Fort. 

Term expires March 15, 1S97. 



Committees of City Couneil. 

FINANCE. 

Daniel Knauer, 
Henry W. Leeds, Edward S. Lee. 

Harry H. POSTOLL, Ai.bkrt Beyer. 

LAW. 

George H. Long, 
Bdward F. Kline. Samuei, B. Rose, 

Jos. E. Lingerman, Frank L. Southrn. 

ORDINANCE. 

Samuei. B. Rose, 
Edward F. Kline. George H. Long, 

Harry H. PosTOLL, Jos. E. Lingerman. 

LICENSE AND POLICE. 

Edwin A. Parker. 
Samuel B. Rose. Jos. E. Lingerman, 

Jos. C. Clement, Harry h. Postoll. 

HIGHWAYS. 

William A. Irei. \n:>, 
Enos F. Haxx, Somers L. Doughty 

Jos. C, Clement, Frank L. Southrn. 



Committees of City Couneil — Continued. 

STREETS, WALKS AND DRIVES. 

Edward S. LEE, 
Daniel Knauer, Edwin A. Parker, 

Henry W. Leeds, Harry H. Postoll. 

LIGHTING. 

Joseph E. Lingerman, 
Edwin A. Parker, S. L. Doughty, 

Wm. A. Ireland, Frank L. Southrn. 

PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF PROPERTY. 

Enos F. Hann, 
Edwin A. Parker, UtEORge H. Long, 

Edward S. Lee. Samuel Barton. 

EDUCATION. 

Albert Beyer, 
Wm. A. Ireland, Daniel Knauer, 

Enos F. Hann, Samuel Barton. 

PRINTING AND STATIONERY. 

Henry W. Leeds, 
Wm. A. Ireland, Edward S. Lee, 

Edward F. Kline, S. L. Doughty. 

SANITARY. 

Joseph C. Clement, 
Samuel B. Rose, Albert Beyer, 

Daniel Knauer, Samuel Barton. 

RULES. 

The President, 
Edwin A. Parker, S. L. Doughty, 

Edward S. Lee, Harry H. Postoll. 



City Offices. 

[Pending the erection of the new City Hall.] 

Mayor Union National Bank Building. 

Comptroller, " " " 

Solicitor, 

Treasurer, Real Estate and Law Building. 

City Clerk, " 

Mercantile Appraiser, " " 

Building Inspector, " " 

City Surveyor, '• " 

Tax Collector, " " 

Recorder, 1321 Atlantic Avenue. 

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Board of Education. 

WARREN SomERS, . . . Term expires April 

Aaron Hinkle 

C. K. UI.MER, M. P.. . " 

C. J. Adams, " 

A. D. Cuskaden, M. D., " 
S. R. Morse " 

William A. Bki.l, ... 

it of Board C. I.Adams. 

tary Aaron Hinkle, . . . 

W. M. Pollarp, M. D. 
. ipal, . . . Chas. B. Bovkr, . • • 
..'. . Henry P. Miller. . . 
of Manual Training, L. E. Ackerman, . . 



i So;, 
i So;. 

189S. 

- S 

1S99. 



Salan 



>K>U. 
$1,200. 



Board of Health. 

William G. HOOPES. Term expires March 13. • 
H. S. SCUM,, . . . Term expires Mar. ^4, 1S9S. Salarj % 
Treasurer, Joseph H. Borton, " " " 24,1898. " $100. 

Dr. M. D. YOUNGMAN. Term expires March 13, lE 

Wm. F. Koenkkk, ... '• " " n, 18 

Jri.irs Cotv " '• " 11, k^o;. 

Wm. B. LOUDENST^AGER, " " " 14, iqco. 

.... Dr. Walter E. Reynolds. . . Salary - 
Plumbing .' Aaron Hinkle 

.lss:sL Health Inspector, Mahlon C. Framp.es 

„ . . ■ 1 -•, , C-. :■ j- k _ t- ,-, . ,- ' Salary, $300 and fees. 
5 ■ .,-. Aleri-.d 1. Gusnn, { Totoi, about fooo. 



Board of Assessors. 

E. R. Donnelly Term expires March 17. 1S90. Salary, $900. 

George B. Zane •• M " 17. 1S00. " $900. 

Samuel G. Harris, ... " " " 17. ^99- " $9°°- 
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LUaten Department. 

Commissioners, . . . . 1). S. WHITE, Jr Salary, #500. 

Term expires August I, 1896. 

Louis KuehnlE " $500. 

Term expires August 1, 1897. 

Franklin p. Cook, " $500. 

Term expires August 1, [898. 

Superintendent, .... W. C. Hawkey, " $2,000. 

Term indefinite. 



Fire Department. 

Chief Engineer Charles C. Whippey Salary, $200. 

Assistant Engineers, . John Lohneis " $100. 

Edward McAdam, " fioo. 

Terms expire January 12, 1897. 
Electrician and Driver, C. Wesley Brubaker, .... " jpi ,330. 

Term expires March 15, 1897. 

FIREMEN. 

Engineers, George Hartlage, United States. 

Salary, Arthur h. Crosby, 

$70 per month. David D. Scanlan Atlantic. 

Robert Griffenberg, .... Neptune. 

Chemical Engineer, . .John Seybold Goodwill. 

Salary, $65 per month. 

Tillerman, William H. Aiken, 

Salary, $60 per month. 

Drivers, Joseph Smallwood United States. 

Salary, C. WESLEY Brubaker, .... 

$60 per month. William H. Willitts 

Morris B. Peterson, 

Daniel Johnson, Atlantic. 

Edward Barnett, " 

William Herbert, Neptuue. 

ALBERT Brubaker " 

Frank Fillmore Good Will. 

William W. Rue Beach Pirates. 

The equipment of the Department is as follows : — 

United States Fire Co., No. 1. Organized, 1874. Two Silsby tire 
engines, one hose carriage, one hose wagon, one Hollow-ay chemical 
engine with two tanks, one patrol wagon, one Chief Engineer's carriage, 
one parade carriage, nine horses. 

Atlantic Fire Co., No. 2. Organized, 1882. One Clapp cc Jones 
engine, one hose carriage, two parade carriages, lour horses. 

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Neptune Hose Co., No. i. Organized, 1882. One La France 
engine, one double carriage, one parade carriage, four horses. 

Good Will Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1. Organized, 1SS6. One 
first-class Haves' truck, one lire patrol wagon, one double tank Holloway 
chemical engine, six horses. 

Beach Pirates Chemical Engine Co., No. 1. Organized, 1S95. One 
Holloway chemical engine, one hose cart, carrying 500 feet of hose. 

Chelsea Fire Co., No. 6. Organized, 1896. One Holloway Combi- 
nation Truck and Chemical Engine, two horses. 

Rescue Hook and Ladder Co., No. 2. Organized, 1896. One 
Gleason & Bailey Co.'s -Lrial Hook and Ladder Truck. 

Total number of fire engines 4 

Hose carriages, wagons and hose carts, 5 

Chemical engines 4 

Hook and ladder trucks, 2 

Patrol wagons, 2 

Parade carriages, 3 

Horses, 25 

The parade carriages can be used in case of emergency, carrying from 
500 to 600 feet of hose. 

The active and honorary membership of the Department is as follows : — 

United States Fire Co., No. 1, 82 

Atlantic Fire Co., No. 2, 42 

Neptune Hose Co., No. 1, 49 

Good Will Hook and Ladder Co., No. 1, 31 

Beach Pirates Chemical Engine Co., No. 1, .... 53 

Chelsea Fire Co., No. 6 44 

Rescue Hook and Ladder Co., No. 2 43 

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pine Alarm Service. 

LOCATION OF BOXES. 

2 Neptune Hose House. 312 North Carolina near Beach. 

21 Arctic and Vermont. 313 Pacific and North Carolina. 

23 Atlantic and Rhode Island. 314 South Carolina below Pacific. 

24 Baltic an. 1 Massachusetts. 315 Tennessee below Pacific. 

25 Atlantic and New Jersey . 32] Pacific and New York. 

26 Arctic and Delaware. 323 Kentucky below Pacific. 

27 Atlantic and Virginia. 324 Illinois below Pacific. 

212 Pacific and Connecticut. 4 Good Will Hook and Ladder Co. 

213 Pacific and Maryland. 41 Arctic and Michigan. 

214 Virginia near Beach. 42 Atlantic and Missouri. 

215 Pennsylvania below Pacific. 43 Missouri above Baltic. 

31 Atlantic and North Carolina. 45 Arctic and Georgia. 

32 Atlantic and Tennessee. 46 Atlantic and Florida. 

34 Atlantic and Kentucky. 412 Pacific and Indiana. 

35 Arctic and Illinois. 413 Michigan below Pacific. 

36 Baltic and Indiana. 4 '4 Pacific and Arkansas. 
$7 Atlantic and Ohio. 421 Pacific and Mississippi. 
38 Antic and South Carolina. 51 Atlantic and Brighton. 



Rtlantie City Poliee Department. 



Chief of Police, . . 
Sergeants of Police, 

House Sergeants, . 
Patrolmen — 



Harry C. EldridGE, Salary, $900 per year. 
$65 per month. 



I Jesse R. Leeds, . . \ 
\ George W. France, ' 

) W. B. Rich, . . . . \ 
• Andrew Hollander ' 



$65 



Richard E. Whalen, Thomas Fenton, 
Charles Varisant, John Clement, 



Mahlon Edwards, 

Thomas Cussack, 

William Miller, 

Royal Robinson, 

Winfield S. Mathis, 

Joseph Collins, 

Samuel Loder, 

Benjamin F. Comly, Daniel Gibson, 

William Cassidy, H. B. Garrison, 

Frank Nash, Joseph Deleon, 



Frank French, 
David Long, 
Malcolm Woodruff, 
William H. Biddle, 
Mulford Rose, 
James Cowden, 
Weslev R. Somers, 



Salary, $60 per month. 



Turnkey, 
fan it or, 



Enoch Shaw, Salary, $60 per month. 

David McAnnev, . . . . " " " 



There are eight extra Patrolmen and twenty-eight Life Guards during 
the months of June, July, August and September. 



City Hall Commissioners. 



Frederick Hemsley. 
John B. Champion. 
Charles Evans. 



Salary, $125 per month. Term indefinite. 
" 100 " " " " 

" 100 " " " " 



City Park Commissioners. 

BrinckeE Gummey. Term expires January 1, 1899. 

A. W. Baiey, M. D. " " " 1,1899. 

Walter E. Edge. " " " r, 1899. 

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Atlantic City Statistics. 

Population of Atlantic City (Census of 1895), 18,329 

Present population of Atlantic City, . . . 21,000 

Transient population during summer season, 60,000 to 150,000 

Number of houses in Atlantic City, 4,041 

Value of Real Estate, per assessment, . . . $12,172,646 

Actual value of Real Estate, at least, $30,000,000 

Water Pipes laid and in use in Atlantic City, ....... 48 miles 

Length of Streets, 37^ " 

" Boardwalk, $% " 

Number of Public School Houses 5' 

" Churches, 20 

" National Banks, 3 

" Safe Deposit Companies, 1 

" Fire Companies, 7 

" Military Companies, 2 

Area of Atlantic City, : 2704 acres 

" Island between Atlantic City and South Atlantic City, 1101 " 

" South Atlantic City, 895 " 

Longport, 513 " 

" entire Island, 5213 " 

Acreage of Atlantic City built upon, nearly 25%, or 640 " 

" Island outside of Atlantic City built upon, . ... 10 " 

" entire Island built upon, i2y2%,or 650 " 

Distance from Inlet to lower end of Atlantic City, \y z miles 

" Atlantic City to South Atlantic City, 3 

" " South Atlantic City to Longport, \]/ z " 

Longport to lower point of beach, 1 " 

" " Atlantic City to Mainland, . 5 " 

First permanent resident on the island, Jeremiah Leeds, in . . 1785 

First train to Atlantic City, ■ . July 1st, 1854 

Second railroad (narrow gauge) to Atlantic City, opened . June 25th, 1877 

" " changed to broad gauge, October 5th, 1884 

Double track of Reading road first used in April, 1889 

Third railroad to Atlantic City, opened June 16th, 1880 

First train on Pennsylvania system via Delaware River 

Bridge to Atlantic City, • • April 19th, 1896 

Length of entire Island 10 miles 

" Young & McShea's Pier, 1970 feet 

" Iron Pier, 1241 " 

" New Boardwalk, 4 miles 

Erection of New Boardwalk begun . April 24th, 1896 

Newspapers in Atlantic City (3 daily and 4 weekljO, 7 

Number of Police Officers and Patrolmen, 41 

" Life Guards 28 

Height of Lighthouse, 167 feet 

Distance visible at sea 19 miles 

Number of Steps to Lighthouse, 228 

Cost of Lighthouse $52,187 

Bricks in Lighthouse Tower 598,634 

Highest curb elevation in Atlantic City above mean low water 13 T 2 feet 
Lowest " " " " " " " " 6 

Meadow surface in Atlantic City above mean low water ... 4 " 

Number of Arc Electric Street Lights, 19S 

Cost of each Arc Electric Street Light per night, 35 cents 

Number of Gas Street Lights, 154 

Cost of each Gas Street Light per night 6 cents 

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Atlantic City Statistics. 



Population and Voters Previous to 1:870. 

The population of Atlantic City has shown a steady increase since 
1854. In the time of the Revolution the entire island had but ten inhab- 
itants, representing two families. Since 1854 the number of inhabitants 
has been as follows : — 

Population. Voters. Population. Voters. 

1854 Estimated, ... 100 18 I 1863 Estimated, . . . 650 121 

1855 " . • 250 49 j 1864 " . • .675Noelec. 

1856 " -375 73 l86 5 Census, .... 746 86 

1857 " ... 400 77 ! 1866 Estimated, . . . 875 136 

1858 " ... 450 93 1867 " ... 925 i«7 

1859 " • • • 55° II2 l86S " • • ' 95° l l° 
i860 Census, '. . . .687 119 1869 " . . . 975 170 

1861 Estimated, . . .675 136 1870 " . . 1,043 J 73 

1862 " ... 625 122 I 1S71 " . • 1,160 232 

Growth of Atlantic City in Twenty-five Years. 

Voters. Valuations. Population. 

1S71, 232 $613,706 I,l6o 

1872, 279 682,790 1,395 

1873, 3IO 805,920 1,550 

1874, 365 854,975 I-825 

1875, 458 880,025 2,009 

1876, 549 1,002,475 2,550 

1877, 61S 999-435 S-loo 

1878, 720 1,089,848 3> 6 °o 

1879, 845 1,179,267 4,425 

1880, 962 1,707,760 5,477 

1881, 1224 1,727.475 6 » I2 5 

1882, 1325 1,884,245 6,625 

1883, 1485 1,989,610 7,225 

1884, 1623 2,087,915 7,500 

1885, 1676 2,602,312 7,942 

1886, 1707 2,796,395 8,500 

1887, 1856 3,537,375 9.371 

1888, 24S0 3,712,818 10,000 

1889, 2530 4,198,145 11,500 

1890, 2840 4,415,896 13,037 

1891, 3040 10,865,634 13,949 

1892, 3180 11,052,925 14,925 

1893, 3226 12,113,196 16,069 

1804, 3466 12,249,999 17,193 

1895, 3600 12,172,646 18,329 

1896, 4424 13,000,000 21,000 

In Atlantic Citv there has been a uniform increase of voters, popula- 
tion and valuation, in the last twenty-five years, of 2000 per cent., or 
twenty-fold. 

Twenty-five years hence the city limits will have been extended to 
the lower "end of the island, and in the light of past growth, we may 
safely conclude that bv that time the permanent population of Atlantic 
City will have reached 125,000, and the valuations at least $100,000,000. 
We are accustomed to call Atlantic City the " Brighton of America.'' 
The Brighton of England has a population of 125,000, all within a terri- 
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tory of three square miles, or 1920 acres. On this island we have an 
acreage nearly treble that of the English resort, and ample room for a 
population one hundred per cent, greater. 

Births, Marriages and Deaths. [8g . 

Number of births recorded, 389 373 

" Marriages recorded, 192 224 

" Deaths (resident) recorded, 218 242 

" Deaths (non-resident) recorded, no 102 

Death rate of residents, n ' 2 to 1000. 



Secret Soeieties. 

There are a number of secret and other societies in Atlantic City. 
Meeting nights of the principal organizations are as follows : 

MONDAY. 
H. H. Janewav Camp, Sous of Veterans, in Memorial Hall. 
Ocean Castle, No. 11, K. G. E-, in Odd Fellows Hall. 
American Star Encampment, No. 8, I. O. O. F., in Odd Fellows Hall. 
Lexington Council, Jr. O. U. A. M.. in Odd Fellows Hall. 
Neptune Home Communion, No. 5, B. U., in Odd Fellows Hall. 
Atlantic Lodge, No. 4, Ladies I. O. M., in Odd Fellows Hall. 
A. 0. Hibernians, Division No. 1, in Odd Fellows Hall. 

TUESDAY. 

Columbia Conclave, No. 1, L. O. R. C, Odd Fellows Hall. 

Atlantic City Lodge, No. 45. Sons of Progress, in Odd Fellows Hall. 

Minerva Circle, No. 21, Brotherhood of the Union, Odd Fellows Hall. 

Joe Hooker Post, No. 52, G. A. R., in Memorial Hall. 

Southern Cross Castle, No. 13. Knights of the Mystic Chain. O. F. Hall. 

Trinity Lodge. No. 79, F. and A. M., in Masonic Hall. 

Woman's Relief Corps, No. 18, Aux. of Joe Hooker Post, Mem'l Hall. 

Cynthia Home Communion, No. 27. B. ot U. ,H. F.) O. F. Hall. 

WEDNESDAY. 
Trinitv Chapter, No. 38, R. A. M., second Weduesdav, Masonic Hall. 
Atlantic City Lodge, No. 276, B. P. O. Elks, in Elks' Hall. 
Arasapha Tribe, No. 106, Improved Order of Red Men, in O. F. Hall. 
Atlantic Lodge. No. 10, A. O. I". W.. in Odd Fellows Hall. 
Webster Lodge, No. 92, Knights of Pythias, in Odd Fellqws Hall. 
Matoaca Council, No. [9, Degree of Pocahontas, I.O.R. M..O. F.Hall. 
Columbia Hall, No. 14, Daughters of Rebecca, in Odd Fellows Hall. 
Columbia Council, No. 46, Legion of the Red Cross, Odd Fellows Hall. 

THURSDAY. 
Union Commandery, No. 89, Knights of Malta, Odd Fellows Hall. 
Atlantic Citv Turn Yerein, in Turn Yerein Halle. 
Atlantic Lodge, No. 5. I. O. M., in Odd Fellows Hall. 
America Star Lodge, No. 14S, I. O. O. F., in Odd Fellows Hall. 
Ocean Spray Lodge. No. 20, M. L-, in Odd Feliows Hall. 
Washington Camp, No. 39, P. S. of A., in Odd Fellows Hall. 

FRIDAY. 
Atlantic City Conclave, No. 156, I. O. Heptasophs, Odd Fellows Hall. 
Fremont Council, No. 208, Jr. O. U. A. M., in Odd Fellows Hall. 
Pequod Tribe, No. 47, Improved Order of Red Men, Odd Fellows Hall. 
Ocean Temple, No. 1, Ladies K. G. E., in Memorial Hall. 
Seaside Castle, No. 56, K. G. E.. in Odd Fellows Hall. 



Appropriations and Ratables. 

All bills or claims against the city must be sworn to by the person 
presenting the same and delivered to the Comptroller. When certified by 
the Committee of City Council or head of the Department ordering the 
work or supplies, and approved by the Comptroller, they are paid by the 
latter, who issues his warrant on the City Treasurer within thirty 
days after the presentation of a claim. Bills properly certified, but not 
approved by the Comptroller, are referred to City Council. That body 
may order a bill paid, but if for good and sufficient reasons the Comp- 
troller thinks a bill against the city should not be paid, he may refuse to 
issue his warrant. 

Appropriations for 1895-96. 



County Tax, 148,230 21 

State School Tax, . . 34,356 89 

City School Tax, . . 23,000 00 

Street Lighting, . . . 27,000 00 

Streets, 24,000 00 



Board of Health, . . . 


22,000 00 


Police Department, . . 
Interest on City Bonds, 
Officers' Salaries, . . . 


42,011 27 
3.792 5° 
12,503 39 


Protection and Improve- 




ment of Property, 
Poor account 


13.972 49 
2,000 00 


Printing, Books and 




Stationery, .... 

Sanitary, 

United States Fire 


3,000 00 
9,002 So 


Company, 

Atlantic Fire Company, 


2,250 00 
2,250 00 



2,250 


00 


800 


00 


3>33 T 


87 


1,500 


00 


100 


00 


20,000 


00 


5,000 


00 


50 


00 



Neptune Fire Company, #2,250 00 

Good Will Hook and 
Ladder Company, . 

Beach Pirates' Chemi- 
cal Engine Company, 

Legal Expenses, . . . 

Hospital Expenses, . . 

Memorial Services, . . 

Payment of City Bonds, 

Notes Outstanding, . . 

Fountains, 

Prevention of Cruelty 

to Animals, . . 25 00 

Election Officers' Sal- 
aries, 1,000 00 

Armory Rent, Com- 
pany F, N. G. N. J., 100 00 

In the above appropriations is included unexpended balances from 
1894-95, as follows: Police, $11.27; Salaries, $3.39; Protection and Im- 
provement of Property, $2,972.49 ; Sanitary, $2.80 ; Legal Expenses, 
$831.87. 

Resources for 1895-96. 



Anticipated Licenses, . 

Tax Warrants of 1891, 
1892, 1893 and 1894, 
uncollected, . . . . 

Fines, 



$75,000 00 



Wharfage and sundry 

sources, $500 00 

Tax Duplicate, 1895, 214,654 60 



10,000 00 
1,800 00 



Total, .... 
Tax rate, 1S95-96, $i.8S per $100.00. 



$301,954 60 



Abstract of Ratables. 





Real 

Estate 

Valuations. 

Personal 
Valuations. 


2 SI .2 


Taxable 
Valuations. 


feo 


State- 
School 
Tax. 


County 
Tax. 


< 


0.H 

s = 


First Ward, 
Second " 

Third " 
Fourth " 


$2,226,925 J3 1, 350 
3,044,580 316,950 
3,203,131 840,695 
2,3 2 5.94o 183,075 


$25,000 

121,075 

123,900 
35.000 


$2,233,275 
3.240,455 
3,919,926 
2,474,015 


661 
864 
1156 

1013 


$6,503 30 
9,444 56 

11,414 s -' 
7,204 33 


$9,131 36 
13,250 22 
16,028 57 


$42,052 88 
59,738 56 

77,023 57 
51,165 00 


82I 

618 
1 107 

1062 



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Memoranda and Ready Reference. 

Amusements. — Places of amusement are as follows: Academy of 
Music, Boardwalk and New York Avenues ; Young & McShea's Pier, 
foot of Tennessee Avenue ; Scenic Theatre, Boardwalk and Tennessee 
Avenue ; Schaufler's Garden, North Carolina Avenue ; Albrecht's Garden, 
Atlantic below Illinois Avenue ; Streets of Cairo and Court of Honor, 
both on the Boardwalk ; Music Hall, Atlantic Avenue above Kentucky. 

Armory. — The Armory and Gymnasium of the Morris Guards is on , 
New York Avenue between Atlantic and Pacific. The Armory of Com- 
pany F, N. J. N. G., is in Odd Fellows Hall, on New York Avenue. 

Churches. — There are twenty churches in Atlantic City, the names 
and locations being as follows : 

First Presbyterian Church, corner Pacific and Pennsylvania Avenues. 
Morning service at 10.30. 

Church of the Ascension (Episcopal), corner of Kentucky and Pacific 
Avenues. Litany and sermon at 10.30. 

St. James' P. E. Church, corner Pacific and North Carolina Avenues. 
Morning service at 10.30. Open in summer only. 

St. Nicholas' (Roman Catholic), Pacific Avenue, below Tennessee. 
Every Sunday and Holy Day Mass; June, 6.30 and 9.30; July and 
August, 5.30, 6.30, 8.30, 9.30 ; rest of year, 7.30 and 9.30. 

St. Monica (Roman Catholic), Atlantic Avenue, below Texas. Mass 
at S and 10. 

First M. E. Church, Atlantic Avenue, below Massachusetts. Morn- 
ing service at 10.30. 

St. Paul's M. E. Church, corner of Ohio and Arctic Avenues. Morn- 
ing service at 10.30. 

Central M. E. Church, Pacific Avenue corner of Chalfonte Avenue. 
Morning service at 10.30. 

First Baptist Church, Pacific Avenue, below Pennsylvania. Morning 
service at 10.30. Mission, Atlantic Avenue, below Georgia. 

German Presbyterian Church, corner Pacific and Ocean Avenues. 
Morning service at 10.30. 

Olivet Presbyterian Church, organized 1S96. No site selected. 

Friends' Meeting-house, corner of Pacific and South Carolina Avenues. 

St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, Michigan Avenue, corner Pacific. 
Morning service at 10.45. 

Christ M. P. Church, Arctic and Texas Avenues. Morning service 
at 10.30. 

People's Church, Indiana Avenue, below Atlantic. Morning service 
at 10.30. 

Jewish Synagogue of Beth Israel, Pennsylvania Avenue, above Pacific. 

Colored Methodist Church, corner New York and Arctic Avenues ; 
Ohio Avenue above Atlantic ; corner Maryland and Baltic Avenues. 

Second Baptist Church (colored), Centre Street above New York 
Avenue. 

Banks. — The safest and most convenient shape in which the traveler 
to the seashore can place his money before leaving home is in the form 
of letters of credit or circular notes, payable at a local banking institution. 
In Atlantic City there are three national banks where letters of credit 
may be made payable — the Atlantic City National Bank, the Second 
National Bank and the Union National Bank. There is also a Safe De- 
posit and Trust Co. The buildings are fully equipped with all the best 
appliances for the bauking business and the banks are very carefully and 
prudently managed. 

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Baptist Church. — This edifice was completed in July, 1882, and 
enlarged and improved in 1893. It is a neat structure, capable of seating 
about five hundred. The seats are arranged in ampitheatre style. 

Carriages. — Atlantic City is abundantly supplied with carriages or 
hacks, for which there is a schedule of charges, as follows : Carriages 
with two horses, with driver, one dollar and fifty cents per hour ; carriage 
with two horses, without driver, two dollars per hour ; phaeton with one 
horse, without driver, one dollar per hour ; cart with one horse, without 
driver, one dollar and fifty cents per hour ; saddle horse, one dollar per 
hour; carriages to or from railroad depot (one or two persons), distance 
one mile, fifty cents ; additional passengers, twenty-five cents ; more than 
a mile (one or two persons), not exceeding two miles, one dollar ; addi- 
tional passenger, twenty-five cents; omnibusses from Inlet to Sea View, 
along Atlantic Avenue, six cents. In calculating distances it is customary 
to make twelve blocks a mile. 

Catholic Church. — St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church was built 
in 1856 on Atlantic Avenue, near Tennessee. In the spring of 1887 the 
building was removed to its present location on Pacific Avenue, near 
Tennessee. Many changes and improvements were made, and it is now 
a large and very comfortable church edifice. 

St. Monica's Church edifice, at the corner of Atlantic and Texas 
Avenues, was dedicated in 1886. 

City Hall. — A handsome brick and stone building, to be used as a 
City Hall, will be built on the site of the old City Hall, which was destroyed 
by fire on August 17th, 1893. The location is at the corner of Atlantic and 
Tennessee Avenues. In this building there will be the offices of the 
Mayor, Recorder, Treasurer, Comptroller, City Clerk, Tax Collector, City 
Surveyor, Supervisor of Streets, Board of Health, Water Department, 
Magistrates' Court Room, Police Headquarters, etc. 

Death-Rate. — The death-rate among residents is about 12 in 1000, 
which is probably lower than that of any other city in the country. 

In relation to the resident death-rate Dr. M. D. Youngman says : 
" Thirty per cent, of the number are buried either in remote parts of the 
State or in other States, showing that they or their friends were only 
temporary residents, and yet claimed residence here and intended living 
here while the boarding-house business paid, or while they found employ- 
ment as waiters, or as long as their health was conserved. A considerable 
percentage of these waiters are colored, the majority being children. 
Colored people come here for the purpose of doing laundry work and 
waiting, and their children are bottle-fed and neglected. The mortality 
is therefore very great among them in consequence. Many of these 
people are of a roving disposition, and stay here part of the year and go 
elsewhere the remainder, or they come and stay a year or two, and this 
constitutes their residence here. Many of our permanent residents are 
impaired lives, persons who maintain a permanency of residence here 
because they cannot live elsewhere on account of some impairment of 
health. The local death-rate from acute diseases is very low. Of the 
non-residents the great majority are chronic invalids, many of them being 
in the city but a few days or even hours when they die. This is the case 
with children very frequently in the hot season." 

Friends' Meeting-house.— This place of worship was buit in 1872, 
previous to which the meetings of the Society of Friends were held in the 
school-house on Pennsylvania Avenue for four consecutive summers. 

Garbage. — All garbage must be deposited in some safe receptacle, 
to which the garbage gatherer can have access. Garbage is removed 
every day during the summer, and three times a week during the remain- 

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dei "i the yeai The collectors are no1 required to remove garbage 
mixed with watei 

Halls, odd Fellows' Hall, New York V venue above Pacific; 
Morris Guards Hall, New York Avenue in-low Atlantic; Turn Verein 
Halle, Ww York Avenue below Atlantic; Memorial Hall (G. A. R.), New 
York Avenue above Pacific; Elks Hall, cornel Atlantic and Maryland 
Avenues; Masonic Hall, cornei Atlantic and Smith Carolina Avenues; 
Bartlett's Hall, Atlantic Avenue above North Carolina; Masons' Hall, 
cornei Atlantic aud Michigan Avenues; City Hall, cornei Atlantic and, 
Tennessee Avenues; Music Hall, Atlantic, above Kentucky Avenue 

Hospital and Sanatorium. Atlantic Cit3 bas a well-appointed, 
centrall} located and ablj conducted hospital and sanatorium, it is 
located a1 the cornei oi Pacific and Mount Vernon Avenues^ and is 
undoubtedly the best appointed institution oi the kind on the coast. 

\n innovation on old hospital regulations is the absence oi wards. 
in the Atlantic City Sanatorium and Hospital Vnnes every patient has 
.1 separate room, which affords perfect sanitary conditions. The hospital 
:iim(-\ is on the top floor. 

i in second and third floors have been set aside foi the regular busi 

oi the Sanatorium. Thej are divided into large rooms, all hand 
somely papered, carpeted and furnished, equal in everj respect to the 
best hotels in Atlantic City. < >n evei \ flooi thru- are baths, toilets and 
Lavatories for men and women. The halls are wide, extending across the 
entire building, affording Free circulation oi ail and pleasant promenades. 
Electric baths are given in the rooms oi patients l>\ means oi movable 
tubs constructed foi tins purpose. The operating room is on the upper 
flooi [t is furnished with all the appliances necessary for so important 
an adjunct to hospital work, and is lighted by a skylighl which throw9 a 
strong light directlj on the subject. There are also side lights. 

The first flooi above the basement maj be called the business depart 
tnent. fhere are two entrances one from Pacific and one from Mt. Vernon 
Avenue and these lead into the reception room and office The] 
and public library, adjoining the office, faces both avenues. There is a 
writing room and ladies' parloi on this floor, and a pleasant dining room, 
aough to seat thirtj six people. The laboratory is also on this 
floor. 

the establishment is operated on a complete system of muses' calls, 
electric bells, elevators and the latest improvements foi sanitary and 
hospital work. There are fiftj sis private rooms, and accommodations 
for twenty five hospital patients, in the perfection oi this Atlantic City 
Sanatorium and Hospital, Mi. J. J. Rochfort, the Superintendent, had to 
overcome mam difficulties and discouragements, aud Atlantic Citj is now 
enjoj ing the benefits oi ins persistent efforts. 

Jewish Synagogue. This unique building is situated 6n Pennsj I 
N.iui.i Avenue above Pacific. 'The cornei stone was laid and the edifice 
completed in [89a 

E4gh1 Gas and Rlectric. Atlantic Citj is lighted with both 
gas and electricity. The Gas Works, which were completed in June, 1878, 
are located on Michigan Avenue near Arctic. The present capacity oi 
the works is t luce hundred and fiftj thousand cubic fe~et pei daj . 

Connected with the * '.as Works, and operated bj the same company, 
is .in electric arc-light plant, which was established in the summei oi 
1882. The plant furnishes light foi the boardwalk and avenues, besides 
a numbei oi hotels and public building 

The eit\ is also supplied with light liom the Kdisou l ue.indeseeut and 

American arc burners bj the Atlantic Electric Light and Powei Co., 

whose works aie on Atelie Avenue ne:n keutuekv 

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Methodi.st Church. The first religious services held in Atlantic 
*. 1 1 \ were undei the direction ol the Methodists. The building was dedi 
cated in (857, .'mil still stands where originall) built, <>n Atlantic Avenue, 
below Massachusetts, it has been enlarged and improved, however, and 
will now scat comfortably several hundred people. Besides tin 1 -, the First 
Methodisl Church, there is the St. Paul's M. B. Church, buill in 1882, 
the Central M. E. Church, built in [896, and Chrisi Protestant Church. 

Military Companies, roe Hooker Post, n<>. 32, G. A. R, ; meets 
the second ami fourth Tuesdaj evening in each mi. nth at G. \ R Hall 

Colonel 11. 11. Janewaj Camp, No. ti, S. ot V*. ; meets the first and 
third Aiomla\ evening in eat b month in 1 i. A. R. Hall. 

Morris Guards, named m honoj ot Col Daniel Morris, who is one ot 
the oldest residents ot the place, it is both a social and military organi 
zation, and is intended to be always read] to rendei an) Bervice required 
oi a military company, and to officiate at the reception ot all organi a 
tions visiting the cit 5 in a body. 

1 dm 1 ..-in \ i<\, attached to the Sixth Regiment, New ferse) Nat. Guards. 

Naval Reset ves 

Presbyterian Church. There are two edifices ot this denomi 
nation in .Atlantic City, the principal one being at the cornei ot Pai ifi< 
ami Pennsylvania Avenues, rhe building was erected in [856, enlarged 
some years later, and ver) much improved in the spring ot [887. The 

interior is Leant 1 1 nil \ liescoed, the 9eatl are I U .liioiied, and the I Imieli 
otherwise at ti active and coin 1 01 1 a I ile. 'flic ( '.crinan 1'iesle I. i i.m ( lunch 

was dedicated in [884. 

Protestant Episcopal Church. St. James P. E. Church was the 
first oi this denomination elected in Atlantic Cit) it was finished in 
[869, and enlarged in February, [874. The Church "i the Ascension, 
originally a frame building, was completed in 1879, and stood on Pai ific 
\vi line below Michigan, but was removed in [886 to it', present location 
on Kentuck) Avenue, iie.n Pacifii rhe present bricl edifice was com 
pleted in i.Si),v 

Public Schools. The public schools ot Atlantic Cit) are five in 
number, the oldest being at Pennsylvania and Arctii Avenue-. Xhe 
original building was removed in 1887, and a new brick building erected 

011 the ate at a cost ol lwent\ thousand dollars. Theothei building 

011 Indiana Avenue neat Atctic, TeXB9 Avenue .nu\ Arctic, \" til \ venue 

nr:ii \,-w [ersey, and an imposing new brick and stone high-school 
building at the cornei oi [llinois and Arctic Avenue., finished in 1896 
The buildings are well heated, comfortabl) furnished and connected with 
the sewei system. 11 has been trulj said that no more cogent reason is 
required to show the salubrity ot the climate and the desirabilitj ot 
Atlantic Citj as an abiding place foi all who esteem health a blessing than 
the number of children born within the island's sandy rim. When the 

si liool l.ell calls them liom home thev swaim along the st n . I . ,. 

numerous as tiddlers on the margin ot a salt pond. 

Railroad Stations. West |erse) and Atlantic, South Carolina 

Avenue, above Atlanl i. 

( anideii and Atlantic, South t'aiolma Avenue, between All. mil. .\\\<\ 
Arctic. 

Atlantic idt v (Reading system), Atlantic Avenue, between Arkansas 

and Missoui l Avenue. 

Longport and South Atlantic City, cornei Teni tee and Atlantic 

A venues 

Sanitation. Atlantic Cit) has a model system foi the disposal ot 
garbage and refuse, at the crematory, Michigan Wenue neai Baltic. No 
bad odor, are noticeable, eithei in 01 out oi the building in which the 

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work is done, and all classes of offal and refuse, including dead animals, 
broken glass and crockery ware, etc., as well as garbage, are quickty and 
successfully destroyed. In his annual report the health inspector says of 
the sanitary condition of the city : "Last year the city was inspected 
from house to house, and again this year. We have been spared the 
infliction of any epidemic. A few cases of infectious disease have 
occurred, but these cases were properly isolated and controlled, and in 
no case extending beyond the family in which they originated." 

Sewage System. — The waves that beat on the Atlantic City beach 
are not required to act as scavengers for the city. Unlike other places on 
the coast, the surf here is absolutely free from refuse or defilement of any 
kind, and for this visitors are even more grateful than residents. By an 
underground system, which is a revelation to most city people, the air, 
the soil, and the water are absolutely free from contamination bv sewage. 
Briefly stated, this system, introduced by Robinson & Wallace, extensive 
contractors in New York City, and generally known as the West system, 
comprises a pumping station and reservoir, with deeply laid sewers con- 
verging to it, and filter beds situated on the salt meadows at a considerable 
distance from the well. 

The reservoir is placed on the edge of the meadows, next that side of 
the town which is farthest from the ocean and the hotels. It is a walled 
pit, cemented inside and out, thirty feet in diameter and twenty feet deep. 
Connected with it is a ventilating shaft seventy-five feet high. The main 
sewer, which empties into the bottom of this well, is a cylindrical iron 
pipe twenty inches in diameter. Connected with this is a system of sub- 
mains and laterals of iron or glazed terra cotta pipe. 

The sewage is conveyed by gravity to the well or reservoir, and is 
forced thence, through an iron pipe, to the filter beds bv means of 
powerful steam pumps, having a joint capacity of nine million gallons 
every twenty-four hours. The liquid, after passing through the filter 
beds, is only slightly discolored, and by extra care and frequent changing 
of the filtering material, it has been found possible to render it clear and 
pure enough to drink. There is absolutely no odor at the well, not even 
when one stands inside on the floor, with the trapdoor open. This is 
because the sewage empties there in a fresh condition, or before it has had 
time to decompose. But even if gases should form, the high ventilating 
shaft adjoining the well, and connected with the fire in the engine room, 
carries off all smell. A slight odor is detectable at the filter beds, but 
this never reaches the inhabited part of the city. 

Built on a dry bed of sand, between its salt inlet and thoroughfare on 
one side and the ocean itself on the other, Atlantic City's surface drainage 
would be quickly absorbed by the porous soil, were it not quicklv piped 
off on the salt meadows in an entirely different svstem of conduits. As 
a matter of fact, so dry and porous is the natural soil of the place, that, 
rain hard as it may, water disappears from the streets as if by magic. 

Water Supply. — Atlantic City has an exhaustless supply of pure 
fresh water, furnished both by artesian wells and conduits, which bring 
the water seven miles across the meadows from a sweet, clear and pure 
source among the pines of the mainland. There are twelve artesian wells 
on the island, furnishing water that is as crystal clear, pure and whole- 
some, and as wholly uncontaminated by organic matter as that obtained 
at any of the mountain resorts. There are water-works of the most 
elaborate character, and two stand-pipes, having a capacity of over half a 
million gallons, thus insuring an abundant supply of excellent water at 
all times for every purpose. The pumping capacity of the engines is 
eleven million gallons a day. Nearly fifty miles of pipe are laid through- 
out the city, and connected with these pipes are about 450 fire-hydrants. 
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PROLOGUE. 

King Lear — 

" May be he is not well ; 
Infirmity doth still neglect all office, 
Whereto our health is bound.'' 

— Shakspeare. 

Pilgrim. — Not well, my lord ? Methinks thou knowest not what 
the matter is. Send thou and tell him I would speak with him. 

King. — Nay ! I will not command his presence, seeing he doth 
yet suffer. We are not ourselves when nature, being oppressed, 
commands the mind to suffer with the body. But what is this thou 
revealest? What kind offices hast thou for the indisposed and 
sickly ? 

Pilgrim. — 'Tis this, my lord. These many summers have I wan- 
toned with the breakers at Atlantic City, and there, also, on many 
a winter day, have I found delightful outing by the sea and much 
ease in mine inn. There, my lord, once I sat upon a pier and heard 
a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, uttering such dulcet and harmoni- 
ous breath that the rude sea grew civil at her song. At this place, 
whereof much praise hath been spoken by most learned men, in 
winter time, ere yet the inns at other places have their portals 
opened, I durst lay my hand upon the Ocean's mane and play 
familiar with his hoary locks. 

King. — I perceive, pilgrim, that thou art no fool, nor art thou 
abstemious of pleasure, seeing that thy countenance is round and 
good-natured and thy nose doth wear the liver}' of good living. 
This word of thine persuades me that it behooves us all to go and 
linger yet a while at thy fair city which thou callest Atlantic City. 
Give me my servant forth ! Nay ! go thou thyself and summon up 
the retinue. Command them to attend to-morrow at nine, for at 
that hour we go to this place of rest and pleasure ; and so may this 
be our custom hereafter. Resolve, also, with all modest haste, 
whichsoever way thou mayest please, that this be our usage twice 
every twelvemonth. Write it down and post it by ever}' path we 
tread, and let it shine with such a lustre that he who runs may 



THE SEA. 



tsog - i Ehl, Sea 

stery — 
. . g g st 1 stiny, 

I ) me. 
Thou art the pulsing, throbbing heart of earth — 
s,ereth< irth — 

art thou heaving', surging 'gainst her girth. 

Thou and the earth, twin-sisters, as thej - 
In the fashioned in 

And therefore thou deligl test . . nuore 
With her to lie and play 
The Summer honrs 

.-. loving • • esi her quiet sh 

Sunlis minister ee — 

. ess sea 
lit.-.-. - great lights - rise; 

While th< ve. 

In vast - \e. 

Is gazing I ee with his hundred ej as 

Sometimes s son high 

sky, 
th the frith:'. 
\\ ':-.. sest stling shrill, 
chill, 
dinging; to the s 

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reai '. - .-.- 
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geashore guggestioris. 



As to exercise, the danger is that invalids visiting Atlantic City will take too 
much, owing to the extraordinary stimulative effect of the sea air. They need, 
therefore, to be careful that they do not exhaust their small stock of vitality as fast 
as it can be replenished. But this tendency is much less in winter than in sum- 
mer, when the nightly hops and other pleasures and dissipations keep the more 
impressionable visitors in a constant whirl of excitement. 



For some persons the air alone is sufficient, while others get on famously with 
the air and the help of judicious bathing. Still others need medicines, and suffer 
by having them stopped during their stay at the seashore. For these the tonic 
and alterative virtues of the air often furnish just the adjuvants necessary to 
accomplish a cure. The medicines which at home were nugatory or only half 
successful may succeed perfectly with the aid of the sea air when neither alone 
would be sufficient. 



The matter of diet is not so important at the seashore in winter as in summer, 
but it is safe to counsel all invalids to restrain the prodigious appetite they are 
almost sure to have soon after coming here in winter ; otherwise constipation, 
headaches and loss of appetite will follow. 



It is a mistake to suppose that one cannot take cold at the seashore. Invalids 
should take the usual precautions against being chilled. In the winter season and 
on summer evenings wraps are always in order out-of-doors, though in summer 
they need not be heavy. 



A radiation of heat is constantly taking place from such a large body of salt 
water as the ocean, which is warmer in winter and cooler in summer than the 
surface of the land adjacent ; hence the air at the seashore is usually warmer in 
winter, though cooler in summer, than that of interior places in the same latitude. 



The brisk sea-breezes of early spring, which sing and whistle around the 
cottage gables and through the bare branches, inspire the visitors with longings 
for the vigorous exercise of brisk walks and long horseback rides. From these 
they return with such glowing cheeks, sparkling eves and keen appetities that the 
mere sight of them is a better advertisement of Atlantic City air as a tonic than all 
the books that could be written. 



Water absorbs heat and parts with it by radiation more slowly than the land. 
Hence in hot weather water is comparatively cooler than the land, while in cold 
weather it is warmer. Therefore the summer temperature of a country bordering 
on the sea is lowered, while the winter temperature is moderated. This explain- 
why Atlantic City is cooler in summer and wanner in winter than places inland. 
The prevailing winds here are from the sea, and winds which come from the sea 
temper the extremes of heat and cold. 



There are certain things with which every visitor must supply himself before 
starting on his journey homeward, and certain facts, a knowledge of which will be 
useful to him while here. For this reason a little time devoted to an examination 
of the pages of this Hand-Book will be profitably spent. 



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Railroad system. The other is byway oi the Atlantic City 
Railroad operated by the Reading Company, which starts from 
the foot of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Crossing from the 
foot of Market Street, Philadelphia, the traveler may take the 
West rersey ears at Camden, passing south near the Delaware 
River to Gloucester, a city of 6,563 inhabitants by thecensusof 
[8qo It was founded in 1689, and was held by Lord Cornwal- 
lis with 5,000 British troops, in .;:;. The next station 
is Westville - 150 inhabitants . near the mouth of rimber Creek, 
where Captain Cornelius Jacobese Mey, oi the Dutch West In- 
dia Company, founded Fort Nassau in 1621. Hie Colonists 
were soon at feud with the Indians, and being decoyed into an 
unfavorable position, they were all massacred and the tort was 
destroyed The train next passes the city of \\ oodbury, which 
one luthority says should be spelled Woodberry, a place of 
1 867 inhabitants, many of them Philadelphia business men. 
The place takes its name from the family oi W oods, who eame 
from Berry, in Lancashire, England, in 1684. Richard Wood, 
the first settler, eame out with the earliest emigrants to Phila- 
delphia leaving his family in that town, he descended the 
Delaware and paddled two or three miles up the Piscozackasingz- 
Kil now Allied Woodbury Creek, until he eame to a likely place 
tor an habitation. In the winter o( .777, Lord Cornwallis had 
his headquarters in the village of Woodbury. During his stay 
some of his men seized a valuable cow belonging to an ardent 
Whig The latter waited upon his I.ordslnp and requested a 
restoration o\ the property. Cornwallis was desirous oi knowing 
the political principles of the man. The sturdy patriot tried to 
evade the question, but at length- cow or no cow— the truth 
would out, when his Lordship, in admiration ot the man s inde- 
pendence restored to him his COW. Succeeding stations are \\ e- 
nonah a very pretty suburban village, Sewell, Pitman Grove, 
and Glassboro', the latter a town o( j. 500 inhabitants. 1 he 
place was settled by a family of Germans named Stangeer, in 
the latter half of the eighteenth century, who commenced the 
manufacture of -lass. 'They failed in business, and the works 
were purchased in 1781 by Colonel Thomas Heston, a Revolu- 
tionary patriot, and brother to Colonel Edward Heston, another 
"fighting Quaker," who founded Hestonville, now a part ot 
Philadelphia. The place was known as Heston' s Glass \\ orks 
until some years later, when, at the suggestion ot a member of 
the celebrated Gloucester Vox Hunting Club, on the occasion oi 
a convivial gathering at Colonel Heston's house, after a hunt 
and capture of Reynard, the name was changed to Glassboro , 
and has ever since borne that name. The works are still in the 
possession o( Colonel Heston's descendants, the \\ Intnoys-his 
daughter Bathsheba, having married Captain Eben Whitney— 




K ■ 

HU&CH. 




Cottage of C. H. McPherson-Residence of Thomas J. Dickerson-Cottage of 
Thomas M. Thompson— Cottage orGeorge T. Lippincott. 



Going to Atlantic City. 



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and are the largest as well as the oldest in the country. Beyond 
Clayton, with its 1,900 inhabitants, the train passes the vine- 
yards of Franklinville, Iona and Malaga, and thence to New- 




field, where express trains sometimes stop. After leaving 
Newfield there are two or three small hamlets before reaching 
Mayslanding, the county seat of Atlantic County, containing 



36 Hand- Book of Atlantic City. 

about 900 inhabitants. This village was founded by George 
May, in 17 10, and is at the head ot navigation on the Great 
Egg Harbor River. The greatest water-power in the State is at 
this place, furnishing motive power for a large cotton mill 
owned by the Wood brothers. 

In the latter part of 1S13, the sloop "New Jersey," from 
Mayslanding, manned by Captain Barton and two hands, was 
taken by a British armed schooner off Cape May. A young 
middy, two Englishmen and an Irishman were put on board 
the "Jersey," with orders to follow the schooner. But three 
Yankees were not to be beaten by such poor odds as this. Bar- 
ton and his men soon recovered command of the sloop and run 
her in at Somers' Point, with the middy and his three assistants 
as prisoners. The first was confined for awhile and then ex- 
changed, and of the latter, the two Englishmen soon went to 
work in the neighborhood, and the Irishman enlisted on board 
one of Jefferson's gun-boats and fought bravely for the " grid- 
iron." The last station before reaching Atlantic City is Pleas- 
antville, a thriving village, situated on a bluff overlooking the 
bay. 

If the traveler prefers, he may return to Philadelphia by 
another route, round-trip tickets being good on either of the two 
roads operated by the Pennsylvania Company. Abseeou, the 
first station, is situated on the bay shore two miles above Pleas- 
antville. and is inhabited by a considerable number of well-to- 
do people, many of whom are either commanders of or interested 
in vessel property. The history of the town dates from 1695, 
when Thomas Budd, the owner of many thousand acres of land 
on the beaches and the mainland, disposed of large tracts to 
actual settlers. Each of his deeds has this clause inserted : 
" With the privilege of cutting cedar, and commonidge for cat- 
tell, etc.. on ye swamps and beaches laid out by ye said Thomas 
Budd for commons." The exaction oi these privileges at this 
date would cause much trouble, as a large portion of the built- 
up portion of Atlantic City stands upon one of the survevs of 
Thomas Budd. 

Above Abseeou is Egg Harbor City 1 1,438 inhabitants), a 
German settlement, where the celebrated Egg Harbor wines are 
made. Elwood is the site of a projected city, with parks, 
avenues and squares laid out on the long reaches of sandy soil . 
Hammonton, midway between Atlantic City and Camden, is a 
prosperous town of 3 S46 inhabitants, settled by Xew Englanders 
in 1S60, and situated on the old pine plains of Atlantic County. 
The town is beautifully laid out, and the inhabitants are largely 
engaged in fruit raising. The train passes Winslow. Waterford, 
Atco. Berlin. Kirkwood. and other smaller villages before reach- 
ing Haddonfield, six miles from Camden. This is a borough of 



Going- to Atlantic City. 37 

2,600 inhabitants, where many Philadelphia business men have 
their suburban homes. It was settled by Friends or Quakers in 
1690, and was named after an eminent Quakeress named Eliza- 
beth Haddon. The Continental Congress was in session 
here, and the place was afterwards occupied by British 
troops. Several very interesting Revolutionary incidents con- 
nected with Haddonfield have found their way into print, but 
are too lengthy to be copied into this Hand-book. During the 
French Revolution, L,ouis Philippe, who subsequently became 
King of France, made his home for a short time with one of the 
Quaker families of the village. Leaving Haddonfield, the train 
passes through a pretty country, and finally reaches Camden 
(58,274 inhabitants), whence the ferry-boats convey passengers 
to Philadelphia. 

By the Reading's Atlantic City route the traveler passes 
through Pleasantville, Egg Harbor City, Elwood, Hammonton 
and a number of very pretty suburban towns south of Camden. 
This road is double-tracked from the Delaware to the sea, and 
all trains are run with due regard for speed, safety and com- 
fort. 

The distance between Philadelphia and Atlantic City is sixty- 
four miles by the West Jersey route, sixty by the Camden and 
Atlantic, and fifty-four by the Atlantic City or Reading, and the 
time is usually seventy to eighty minutes. Throughout the 
winter, spring and summer seasons there are frequent express 
trains over all three roads, and attached to each train are elabo- 
rately furnished parlor cars, in charge of attentive porters. 

The special care in the management of the roads is exhibited 
in the regularity with which the trains are run, the close con- 
nection maintained with other railroads, by which transfers ma)' 
be made without delay, and the absence of serious accident 
within recent years. For several years these companies have 
aimed to meet travel from points beyond Philadelphia, and the 
schedules are now arranged with the view of securing, by close 
connection, the convenience of parties arriving from New York, 
Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington and other points upon any 
of the lines centering in Philadelphia. 



Atlantic City. 



There is that lovely island fair, 

And the pale health-seeker findeth there 

The wine of life in its pleasant air. 




-- TLANTIC CITY, the most 
popular resort on the Atlantic 
^~ coast, is situated between Ab- 
secon Inlet and Great Egg" 
Harbor Inlet, within sixty miles of 
Philadelphia and one hundred and 
fifty miles of New York, by rail- 
road. It is distant five miles from 
the mainland, the intervening space 
being an expanse of salt marshes. 
The island, in its chrysalis condi- 
tion, before it felt the electric touch 
of a railroad, was known as Abse- 
con Beach, which name still exists 
in the adjoining village of Absecon, 
now put completely in the shade by 
its successful neighbor, and in the 
official name of the lighthouse, Ab- 
secon Light. 

Jeremiah Leeds was probably the 
first permanent resident of the 
island. He came here in 1783, 
when a pair of boots or a roll of 
calico would have bought the entire 
island. The early history of Abse- 
con Beach is filled with stories of 
drowning, piracy and shipwreck. According to tradition, ves- 
sels were lured ashore on dark and stormy nights by false 
beacons erected on poles. When the crews had been drowned 
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Atlantic City. -^ 



or individually knocked on the head, so the stories go the 
crafts were plundered of everything of value. One chronicler 
boldly asserts, with apparent perversion of the truth, that, even 
after the first church was built, a lookout was added above the 
cupola, m which a man was stationed during service to promptly 
acquaint the devout congregation of a disaster, so that rival 
wreckers in the neighborhood of Barnegat or Brigantine should 
not get the start of them. Another prevaricating writer says 
the children were taught to lisp the prayer : ' ' God bless mam 
pap, and all us poor, miserable sinners, and send a ship ashore 
before morning. ' ' 

Long before the days of railroads Absecon Beach bore the 
gruesome name among sailors of "Jack's Gravevard." There 
was no lighthouse then, and often the beach was strewn with 
wreck, and among the debris main- a time lay the dead body of 
a sailor. Over at Absecon they still tell thrilling stories of 
drowning and shipwreck. 

Besides the Leeds family, two other families owned most of 
the land on which Atlantic City is built- the Steelmans and 
Chamberlains. The mother of the numerous Leeds progem- 
kept the old Atlantic House as a tavern for oystermen and 
traders. It is the oldest house in Atlantic City, and was built 
about the year 1812, but has since been enlarged. It originally 
stood near the Thoroughfare at Baltic and Florida Avenues but 
was moved to its present site on Baltic Avenue near Massachu- 
setts. 

Forty years ago the location of Atlantic City was still an 
almost uninhabited island. It was so uninviting that when the 
project to make it a summer resort was instituted, the idea was 
ridiculed as being utterly impracticable and scarcely worth the 
consideration of sane men. Said a conservative old capitalist : 
Call it a sand-patch, a desolation, a swamp, a mosquito terri- 
tory, but do not talk to me about any city in such a place as 
that. In the first place, you can't build a city there, and in the 
second place, if you did, you couldn't get anybody to go there " 
The conservative old capitalist was in due time gathered unto 
his lathers, and the enterprising men who set to work to plant 
a city have had the satisfaction of seeing more than their most 
sanguine expectations realized. 

The island began to awaken from its slumbering obscurity in 
the early part of 1852, when a glass manufacturer of New Jer- 
sey, laboring under the difficulties produced by almost impass- 
able roads and consequent delays in the transportation of goods 
to Philadelphia, conceived the idea of starting a railroad Be- 
sides this plan for increasing his own business facilities he also 
proposed to make the new road an outlet from Philadelphia to 
the sea, as well as a valuable freight transport for a manufac- 











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Atlantic City. 4* 

turing district. This was Samuel Richards, the first mover in 
the creation of Atlantic City. His associates were Hon. An- 
drew K. Hav, Stephen Colwell, John C. De Costa, Joseph Por- 
ter, William' Coffin, Enoch Doughty and Dr. Jonathan Pitney, 
all deceased. The first projecting visit to the solitary marshes 
and sand-hills of what is now Atlantic City, was made in the 
early part of 1852 ; an act of incorporation was obtained in the 
spring, and in September of the same year a contract was made 
for the construction of the road. The engineer was Richard B. 
Osborne. The road was completed and passenger trains weie 
run on it for the first time on July 1, 1854. Meanwhile Bed- 
loe's Hotel and a little house called Cottage Retreat had been 
erected, and the United States Hotel was so nearly completed 
that the first excursionists, numbering six hundred, were given 
dinner there. The next year the Surf House, Congress Hall, 
another hotel, and two cottages on Tennessee Avenue went up. 
As an adjunct to, and arising out of the railroad company, the 
Camden and Atlantic Laud Company was organized and char- 
tered. This company purchased the land for seventeen dollars 
and fifty cents per acre. The money was paid over in old Aunt 
Hannah Shillingworth's Hotel in Absecon. Then began the 
rise in values that has made so many people rich, though, with 
the usual irony of fate, the descendants of the original owners 
and settlers are still poor. Much of the land is now valued at 
over one hundred dollars per lineal foot. The same land was 
purchased by Jeremiah Leeds in 1783 at forty cents an acre. 
The city was incorporated immediately after the purchase of the 
land, but for the first year or two it took nearly all the men 
among the permanent residents to fill the offices. Chalkley S. 
Leeds was the first mayor. The city limits now cover about 
one-third of the entire island. The original boundary was from 
the inlet to California Avenue, but the lower limit was after- 
ward extended to " Dry Inlet," or Jackson Aveuue. 

In 1876 the increasing importance of the place made another 
railroad desirable, and the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Rail- 
road Company was incorporated. The construction was com- 
menced in April, 1877, and the first through train was run on 
June 25th of the same year. It is now operated by what is 
commonly known as the Reading Company, of Philadelphia. 
The competing facilities offered by this road have been of the 
greatest benefit to the city, and have aided materially in the de- 
velopment of the place. 

Early in the spring of 1880 the West Jersey Division of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad extended its line to Atlantic City. The 
opening of the West Jersey was of exceptional benefit to the 
city, since a direct route to New York city, without change of 
cars, was therebv afforded. 



42 Hand-Book of Atlantic City. 

The nomenclature of the streets of Atlantic City is especially 
happy. The great main avenues running parallel with the 
ocean, five hundred and fifty feet apart, have a breezy suggest - 
iveness of coolness in their names — Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic 
— while the wide thoroughfares that cross them at right angles, 
bearing the names of the States of the Union, illustrate the 
patriotism of those who founded the cit)'. 

The advancement of Atlantic City since the completion of the 
three railroads has been unprecedented in the history of water- 
ing places and health resorts, even in this progressive country, 
and suggests a comparison with the magic progress of Chicago 
or Denver. The city has spread itself literally as well as figura- 
tively, in actual size as well as in population, and the value of 
property has increased ten-fold. Lots on Atlantic Avenue now 
sell for from two to three hundred dollars per front foot, and 
choice lots on Pacific Avenue bring as much as one hundred 
and twenty-five dollars per foot. The tendency is still upward 
in even- part of the city. 








V 



Whence Came Atlantic City? 



I will learn of thee a prayer, 

To Him who gave a home .so fair, 

A lot so blest as ours — 
The < lod who made for thee and me, 
This sweet, fair isle amid the sea. 

— William Cullen Bryant, 



T is apparent that the fame of 
Atlantic City is grounded not 
alone upon those qualities which 
give it prominence as a summer 
resort. It is a great seaside city, 
where in every part of the year 
the health and pleasure seekers 
crowd the hotels and lounge on 
its famous beach. In summer 
the magnificent bathing and the 
famous fishing and sailing attract 
thousands ; in winter the genial 
temperature, bright sky and other 
delightful features make it the 
stopping place for a grand army 
of those who seek to escape the 
rigor of northern climes. There are several good schools, with 
an attendance of over two thousand school children, Presbyte- 
rian, Episcopal, Roman Catholic, Methodist, baptist and Lu- 
theran churches, and a Friends' Meeting House. 

To the inquiry, " Whence came Atlantic City ?" we reply : It 
is a refuge thrown up by the continent building sea. Fashion 
took a caprice and shook it out of a fold of her flounce. A 
railroad laid a wager to find the shortest distance from Penn's 
treaty elm to the Atlantic Ocean ; it dashed into the water and 
a city emerged from its train as a consequence of the manoeuvre. 
Juan Ponce de Leon, the Spanish explorer of the sixteenth 
centnry, sought in vain for the spring whose virtues were credu- 
lously believed to restore the vigor of youth to the aged. vSearch- 
ing for this fountain of youth, ne lauded on the coast of Florida 

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44 Hand-Book of Atlantic City. 

in the year 151 -. and in that country there are springs almost 
innumerable, each oi which to-day lays claim to the high an- 
tiquity of being the identical spring in which the great Spaniard 
performed his daily ablutions. History informs us, however, 
that nowhere could he rind this mythical fountain of youth ; 
but who will deny that had he extended his search northward 
his fondest hopes might have been realized, had he landed upon 
this island, where —quoting the lines of Col. William E. Potter, 
of Bridgeton, X. J. — 

Where the long surges heave and break, 
Foaming, upon the glittering shore, 
Ami laughing maidens often take 
A •• header" 'midst the breakers' roar; 
Where zephyrs gently woo the toiler. 
And nights are mild and >kie> are elear, 
\nd on the housewife's kitchen I roiler 
rhe soft-shell crab doth oft appear; 
Where hops abound and bugles blare. 
And Roman noble-, in the busy street, 
Incognito, with monkeys fare. 
Grinding their daily music sweet : 
Where agile oysters, mild, serene, 
( hti beds of moss recline, and lobsters wi<e 
1 ive pinchingly : and pearly sheen 
( >f hake and flounder wins the 
And the mosquito's monotone. 
Beyond the woven window bar. 
Prevents our feeling quite alone — 
lie i- so near and yet SO tar ; 
Where, by the heaving sea. the fakir'- I 
Is found ere yet the summer's gone, 
Tours forth the fountain o\ eternal youth, 
The spring of ancient Ponce Leon, 

The >>ld Castilian left his home. 
The vine-clad hills <A~ distant Spain, 
A thousand leagues ^( sea to roam; 
To brave the heat, the cold, the pain 
Of wounds, the fatal poisoned dart. 
The march through swamp and tangled wood, 
The ambush dark, the fear, the start 
Of keen surprise when the wild Indian stood, 
Stern, painted, cruel, before him. 
But undismayed by wounds or death. 
His loved lost youth to restore him. 

I, weak and worn, with failing breath, 
He searched, without the glorious sight 
t )f the famed spring, now flowing free. 
Pure and wholesome, sparkling and bright, 
In our gay City by the Sea. 

The old Castilian died long before the feet of white men trod 
the soil whereon Atlantic City was founded, bnt the wonderful 



Whence Came Atlantic City f 45 

life-giving atmosphere of this beach, if not the identical 
" spring of youth," was discovered by a writer on climatology, 
in the eighteenth century, who speaks of the " exceptional dry- 
ness oi the atmosphere on Absecon beach," and adds that 
" there is only one other spot oti the seacoast, anywhere in the 
world, which is comparable to this in that respect." 

Atlantic City truly is a place of rest, and for those in quest 
of health, an equable climate in winter, and refreshing breezes 
in summer ; for those who would enjoy the invigorating sea air 
and be charmed with the music of the surf ; for those who 
would delight in the pleasures of yachting or fishing ; for those 
who would have long life, good living, good society, and be in- 
spired by the grandeur of old ocean ; for those who, like Ponce 
de L,eon, would discover the place which imparts youth to the 
aged, health to the sick, and hope to the despondent, there is 
no more highly favored spot anywhere in the laud than this 
beautiful City by the Sea. 

Some of the advantages of Atlantic City over other resorts 
may be thus stated : 

Its hotels are among the finest and most comfortable on the 
coast. 

It has a perfect system of sanitation. 

It has an abundant water supply from artesian wells and from 
natural springs on the mainland. 

Its death rate is smaller than that of most other cities of the 
country. 

It has a property valuation of nearly fifteen millions. 

It is lighted with gas and electricity, and has a first-class 
volunteer fire department, with several engines and hose car- 
riages, and two hook and-ladder trucks. 

It has ample telegraph and telephone facilities. 

It has excellent schools and churches, good society, good peo- 
ple and good living. 

It has an efficient police force for the preservation of peace. 
Discipline is well maintained, and even in the most crowded 
weeks of summer there is no disorder. 

Several physicians, of eminence in their profession, are resi- 
dent here. 

Ivigorating hot and cold sea-water baths are furnished at 
many of the hotels, and at establishments specially erected for 
that purpose. 

Electric lights at night render the streets as bright as day. 
Electric cars run the length of the main business thoroughfare, 
and carriage hire is so cheap as to astonish visitors accustomed 
to the extortions of the Jehus who infest some other resorts. 




HOTEL BRIGHTON— LIGHTHOUSE AND 1111 SAVING STATION— COTTAGE OF 
GEORGE ALLEN— SECOND .NATIONAL BANK— -HOTEL TRAYMORE. 




PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE SCHOOL — TEXAS AVENUE SCHOOL — INDIANA 
AVENUE SCHOOL. 



Old Ocean's Invitation. 



How sweet the memory of the sea, 
Pictured in beauty, comes to me, 

The peopled sirand, the waves that rise 
To where the sunbeams sweetly play — 

The storm-cloud gathering in the skies, 
Crowned with wild glory, and away, 
Rocked on the bosom of the sea, 
A light craft speeding joyously. 

To me its music sweetness seems, 
Like music of entrancing dreams, 

T .ts power, mysterious and grand, 
Steals o'er my spiiit as a spell ; 

I wander on the drifted sand, 
And hear the songs the billows tell; 
I read a well-taught lesson there 
Of life and light divinely fair. 




XP^f^^ 



ANY of the more recent pa- 
trons of Atlantic City do not 
know that although the his- 
tory of the place as a pleas- 
Jfc ure resort dates from the 
time of its founding in 1854, 
it was not until more than 
twenty years later that it be- 
came widely known as a win- 
ter health resort or sanita- 
rium. To-day there is no 
Northern winter resort more 
popular, none more largely 
patronized, and none more ur- 
gently recommended by physi- 
cians generally than Atlantic 
City. The physicians of Phila- 
delphia were the first to dis- 



cover the wonderful curative effects of the 
.saline air of Atlantic City, and to them, more than to any other 
class of men, is due the credit of making the city what it is — a 
famous sanitarium. Overtaxed brains are ordered hither by 

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5o Ha 

Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the man who has the honor of having 
discovered the "rest cure." He and his learned congeners 
have found that many chronic diseases result from nervous 
exhaustion. The sufferer from incipient paralysis or brain- 



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- rdered to Atlantic - six mouths, and in 

many instances returns to his home cured. It was N. V. Willis 

who first said that ' ' consumption is curable if the patient can 

consuming.*' The once dreaded disease to which every 

New England woman resigned herself fifty years ago, if her 



Old Ocean s Invitation. 51 

lungs began to trouble her, is as curable now as the measles, if 
taken in time. 

In old times the seashore was considered a desolate place in 
winter. Such a bleak idea as to be there in the snow months, 
and amid storms of ice and sleet, would have chilled the marrow 
of an invalid. And yet we find this place a very sanitarium 
for the sick during the winter. Victims of sore throats and of 
lung diseases have found the bracing air of Atlantic City better 
than all the doctor-stuff they could swallow at home. Many of 
the wealthy, who otherwise would have gone to Europe, have 
spared themselves the annoyances of ocean travel by settling 
down here for a few months. Many who used to go to Florida 
in winter now find Atlantic City all they desire. 

Of the many thousands who visit Atlantic City in the inter- 
val between the first of January and the first of June, it is not 
to be supposed that all are in search of health. As has been 
already hinted, a three fold object is associated with life at this 
resort at that season. Invalids, especially those troubled with 
bronchial affections or convalescing from malarial attacks, fol- 
lowing the advice of their physicians, come here to regain their 
wonted health and strength ; others whose daily life of care and 
toil has brought on nervous exhaustion seek rest and recupera- 
tion where it is generally to be found ; and others still, follow- 
ing the bent of fashion, are to be found among the throng of 
pleasure seekers who hie themselves hither during the Lenten 
season. 

In winter, when the majority of the guests are invalids, any 
but the mildest forms of dissipation are, of course, out of the 
question ; but during Lent, when the more extravagant gaye- 
ties of the rest of the world are temporarily suspended, Atlantic 
City becomes the scene of genuine fun and frolic. 

Lenten parties for Atlantic City are formed in the larger cities. 
Upon the advent of Lent some good-natured married lady, of 
unimpeachable social standing, organizes a party of from a 
dozen to twenty young people, and offers to chaperon them to 
Atlantic City. They go for a week or ten days, often staying 
longer, and while they are here the heretofore quiet hotels ring 
with the sounds of music, dancing and merry laughter. The 
more sober-minded invalids gaze with a mild surprise, not un- 
mixed with pleasure, at these jolly parties, and by force of ex- 
ample become more energetic and inclined to forget their 
ailments. 

In considering Atlantic City as a winter and spring resort, it 
is proper to offer some explanation of the causes which produce 
such beneficial results. To this end we must have recourse to 
the opinions of leading physicians and scientists who have made 
a careful study of the matter. " Actual experience," says Dr. 



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Hand-Book of Atlantic City 



Boardman Reed in the Medical Times, " has demonstrated that 
sea air is as valuable in winter as in summer. It also bears out 
the statistics which prove that the climate of Atlantic City is 
superior to that of most seacoast towns, being drier, more 
equable and unusually mild, considering the latitude." The 
same authority says : " Another peculiarity of the location oi 
Atlantic City is that all the winds from the landward must pass 
for long distances — hundreds of miles in some directions — over 
a very dry and porous sandy soil, upon which snow rarely lies 
for any time. These winds, including those from the north, 
northwest, west and southwest are, therefore, to some extent, 
both dried and warmed in their passage. Though the coast ot 
Southern New Jersey has a general direction from northeast to 
southwest, the beach at Atlantic City trends more to the west- 
ward, so that it faces almost directly southward. Therefore 
south as well as east winds are sea breezes here, and both blow 
across the Gulf Stream, which exercises considerable influence 
upon the climate of this part of the coast." 

A well-known physician of Baltimore, the late Dr. J. T. 
King, says : "The geological peculiarity of the island is one 
of the agents that contribute to the remarkable healthfulness of 
Atlantic City at all seasons of the year. There is no indigenous 
or spontaneous vegetation upon the island. The only growth 
to be seen is the arboreal embellishments of the avenues and 
lawns — sylvan contributions from the forests of the mainland. 
Xo stagnant pools or sloughs mar or disfigure the facial linea- 
ments of the island, and there is no malarial or miasmatic ema- 
nation or effluvium to offend the senses or to affect its perfect 
hygiene. ' ' 



*V; 




'Tis the pearly shell. 
That murmurs of the far off murmuring sea; 
A precious jewel, carved most curiously — 
It is a little picture painted well. 

— R. W. Gtli-er. 



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... " -q»| „ „, Us 

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"tihz jiealing of tlie geas." 



Good-bye to pain and care ! I take 

Mine ease to-day; 
Here, where the sunny waters break 
And ripples this keen breeze, I shake 
All burdens from the heart, all weary thoughts away. 



Ha ! like a kind hand on my brow 

Comes this fond breeze, 
Cooling its dull and feverish glow; 
While through my being seems to flow 
The breath of a new life — the healing of the seas. 



Whittier. 




BTLESS sev- 
eral elements 
combine to pro- 
duce the rest- 
ing and ton- 
ic effect of 
the sea air, 
the first of 
which is the 
presence of 
a large a- 
mount of 
ozone — the stimulating, vitalizing principle of the atmosphere. 
Ozone has a tonic, healing and purifying power that increases 
as the air is taken into the lungs. It strengthens the respira- 
tory organs, and in stimulating them helps the whole system. 
It follows naturally that the blood is cleansed and revivified, 
tone is given to the stomach, the liver is excited to healthful 
action, and the whole body feels the benefit. Perfect health is 
the inevitable result, if there be enough of the constitution left 
to build upon. 

The saline particles held in suspension in the atmosphere, 
the " dust of the ocean," enter the system through the lungs, 
and aid in the tonic effect experienced at the seashore. But 
whatever may be the cause, the effect is undoubted. Few 
who visit Atlantic City fail to experience a marked improve- 
ment in appetite, while to many there comes such a feeling 

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A Business Block on Atlantic Avenue— Residence on Pacific Avenue— Pennsylvania 
Avenue Corner of Pacific. 



"/><■ Healing of the Seas." 



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of drowsiness that the most ex- 
citing story will fail to keep them 
awake between the hours of three 
and six in the afternoon. This is 
a sure sign that the nerves are 
being well rested and fed. It is a 
great thing to get an abundant 
supply of nerve food without the 
use of medicines, the falsely 
stimulating effect of which must 
be followed by a corresponding 
exhaustion. 

Atlantic City, as is well known, 
is wholly surrounded by unmixed 
salt water, besides having six 
miles of salt meadows behind it, 
and rests upon a bed of dry sand 
— therein fulfilling the two condi- 
tions laid down by Professor 
Loomis as essential to immunity 
from malaria. No considerable 
fresh water stream empties within 
many miles of it. " My personal 
experience of the place, dating 
back over twenty years," says 
a well-known physician, "affords 
strong evidence against the proba- 
bility of malaria originating here. 
In my practice among invalid vis- 
itors, I see a great deal of malaria. 
It is one o\~ the diseases for which 
visitors come here, particularly in 
winter ; and when they remain 
long enough they do not often 
come in vain." 

It is believed by many scientists 
and students of hygiene that the 
air of Atlantic City is " hostile to 
physical debility," and that to 
those who suffer from our great 
American complaint, nervous 
prostration, whether brought on 
by overwork or by our changeful 
climate, it promises not only re- 
cuperation but a permanent re- 
establishment of health. 

It is with climates as with med- 



56 Hand- Book of A t ] an tic City. 

icines — trustworthy evidence as to what they have accomplished 
is the most valuable. With regard to nervous, rheumatic, gouty, 
dyspeptic and various other chronic ailments which are usually 
found to be benefited here in the summer, equal benefit may be 
expected in the winter. Convalescents from acute diseases or 
from surgical operations nearly always improve remarkably 
upon being removed to Atlantic City from the large cities. 

"As to diseases of the respiratory organs," says Dr. Reed, 
" I have had personal knowledge of many patients suffering 
from various forms of such affections who have made trials of 
this climate in winter. The cases have, as a rule, improved, 
some of them very decidedly, though there have been excep- 
tions. The consumptives who were in the incipient stage, and 
those even in the advanced stages wdiere the destructive process 
lias been advancing slowly, have often experienced very marked 
improvement. In a considerable proportion — about one fourth 
— of the cases of the latter class, the disease has been appa- 
rently arrested, and some of them seem to be cured." 

It is a significant fact that pneumonia and bronchitis are of in- 
frequent origin here, and when they do occur the patients almost 
invariably recover. Upon this point Dr. Reed's experience as a 
resident physician enables him to speak very positively. He 
has not known an uncomplicated attack of either disease to prove 
fatal. 

To another highly respected physician, Dr. James Darrach, of 
Germautown, belongs the honor of having relieved many patients 
suffering from hay fever and autumnal catarrh by sending them 
to Atlantic City. ' The late Rev. H. W. Beecher and Dr. Oliver 
Wendell Holmes had a witty correspondence on the subject of 
hay fever, in which the latter declared that there was no cure for 
the disease " but six feet of gravel." Atlantic City, however, 
has answered back that, if it cannot be cured, it may at least be 
alleviated. 

Nature has provided Atlantic City with the health-giving sea ; 
with a balmy and delightful climate ; with a sandy soil, which, 
after a light snow or heavy rain, dries with marvelous quick- 
ness. Come, then, ye who seek health, rest or pleasure ; come 
and fill your lungs with the ozone of the sea ; come and prome- 
nade on the four-mile boardwalk planted within reach of the 
spray ; come and sit in a rocking-chair and take a sun-bask in 
the open air or in one of the several Ocean Parlors ; come before 
it gets too warm ; come while ye may ; come now. Take no 
heed of a chronic fault finder who may be here, enjoying to the 
full all the benefits and advantages of Atlantic City and the hos- 
pitalities of its people, and who still carps and grumbles because 
the town lacks a few pretty curves and graces. 



guirimer Days by t*ie gea. 



O Summer day beside the joyous sea ! 
Summer day so wonderful and white, 
So full of gladness and so full of pain ! 
Forever and forever shalt thou be 
To some the gravestone of a dead delight, 
To some the landmark of a new domain. 

— Longfellow. 

RAND and glorious are the summer days be- 
side the sea ! Scarcely has passed the brief 
period of transition from the austere days 
of December to the balmy weather 
of May, ere one's thoughts revert, 
with fond remembrance, to the 
delightful scenes, the cool and 
invigorating breezes, and the 
joyous pastimes of Atlantic 
City, where the summer's day 
of the poet is something more 
than a mere creation of the 
fancy. 

The oft-quoted lines of George Herbert, the sweet singer of 
Cherbury — 

" Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, 
The bridal of the earth and sky," — 

are almost meaningless to those who know summer only from 
the high temperatures, the glaring sun and the hot, parching 
winds that are its distinguishing characteristics in no inconsid- 
erable portion of the United States. 

The ideal summer presupposes climatic condition* that make 
phvsical life — from the highest to the lowest — a perpetual delight 
and rejoicing ; and, if there is any place more favored than 
another in that regard, it must surely be a matter of concern to 
the toiling millions to know where it may be found. 

But, apart from the mere pursuit of pleasure, the mere seek- 
ing after enjoyment, and that love of change for its own sake 




58 Hand-Book of Atlantic City. 

that is inherent in every son oi Adam, there is, happily, in this 
busy, restless age, a just recognition of the importance of relax- 
ing the extreme ten ion of business and endeavoring" to repair 
the terrible waste of vital force. We are, however, with our 
pleasures very much what we are in our business, except that 
while we may not always make a pleasure of our business, we 
certainly make a business of our pleasure, seeking to obtain, 
with the least outlay, the largest possible results. 

The accessibility of a summer resort is, therefore, with not a 
few, a matter of importance, second only to the paramount con- 
sideration oi health and pleasure ; and herein lies the secret oi 
Atlantic City's wonderful growth and popularity. 

The tirst-class hotels and numerous boarding-houses in 
Atlantic City are overtaxed in summertime to accommodate 
those who come from every direction, north, east, south and 
west. Cottages have sprung up with a rapidity and in num- 
bers without a parallel in the history of any other resort in the 
world. These cottages find occupants in the spring, most of 
whom remain until October. 

The solid character of its patrons from the better elements of 
society, the quiet, home-like aspect of the place, the natural 
scenery and charms peculiar to itself conspire to make Atlantic 
City the very ideal oi a summer resort. Art and design have 
added to its attractions, beautifying it with broad avenues, with 
walks bordered with trees, and with gardens whose fragrance 
unites with the cool breeze oi the ocean to delight ami refresh 
those who seek rest ami recreation at the seashore. 

The summer brings its own amusements, ami Atlantic City 
has been so blessed by Providence that nature provides a con- 
stant round oi pleasures. The sea is a source oi endless de- 
light. The bathing in the pure surf, free horn every defilement, 
is superb, ami its invigorating pleasures arc enjoyed by nearly 
all except the weakest oi the invalid visitors. Even those who 
do not bathe find a pleasure in sitting under big umbrellas on 
the beach, and watching the antics of those who are tumbling 
in the surf. 

For sailing under the most favorable conditions, the Inlet 
affords ample opportunity, and good boats, ably manned by 
veterau seamen, are always to be had at a fair price. The Inlet 
is the favorite resort oi the lovers oi those twin sports, yachting 
and fishing. A large tleet oi handsome yachts is always riding 
at anchor in waiting for parties desirous for a sail overthe briny 
waters, or oi indulging in that exciting sport, deep sea fishing. 
The water is, at times, fairly alive with game fish, such as sea 
bass, flounders, weak fish, king fish, porgies, croakers, snapping 
mackerel, bine fish ami kindred varieties. The most delicious 
oysters are to be had here, fresh from their native beds, and 



Summer Days by tht Sen. 59 

with an appetizing flavor unknown to one who has never eaten 
X S the moss of then- shells is dry. The Thoroughfare, 

wind is as smooth as a mountain Lake, is another favorite re- 
rort especially for the ladies, it abounds in crabs which are 
I mgh Kt numbers. Those who prefer steam to sails as a 
2 , accommodated also, and the lew whose stomachs 

-e the heaving billows may eschew both and ally sit and 
watch he fleet of gayly decked boats as they dance m the dun 
hs ue^ w n then-'ia-eeious freight, their blood meanwhile 
tinXig with the ozone blown iron, the sea. or the commoner 
kind which some endeavor to suck through a straw. 

After the pleasures of the day are don, there is abundant 
dan «ing Mi iv of the hotels retain orchestras for the season, 
aiH n ip\ go o .1 every evening. Concerts and plays offer their 
>vn attractions, and there is an infinite variety of other diver- 
ts Indeed/it is impossible to pass a dull day or evening, 
and vet if you care nothing for the spnghtlier pleasures, you 
Lay be as quiet as you please, and thai delight in meeting and 
chatting with friends and communing with the sea _ 

In addition to the customary weekly hops at the principal 
hotels, Atlantic City is visited during the summer season by 
some of the best musical and dramatic talent, and concerts and 
entertainments are given at the Grand Opera House. These 
in connection with the varied and ever-recurring. pleasures nat- 
ural to the resort, present a constant round of enjoyment. 

Life indeed, at Atlantic City during the summer is in one 
aspect without restraint. Coming from every part of the and 
and from every walk in life, the crowd must necessarily be a 
motley one, but there is none of that "respect of persons 
Which is sometimes seen in the churches. The man With a gold 
rine in goodlv apparel," is not considered one whit bettei than 
the ''poor man in vile raiment A indeed, appearances, are so 
deceptive that it would never be safe to judge of the Size <>t a 
ma/s bank account by the clothes he has on especially if it 
be a bathing suit. Men whose talents have made them famous 
throughout the land-judges, lawyers and ministers-arrayed 
in a suit of blue and white, mingle daily with the other bathers, 
ignorant of who they are and regardless of their social stand- 
ing It is no uncommon sight to see men eminent in their call- 
ings busily engaged in scooping up bucketfulsoi sand for chil- 
dren whom they chance to meet upon the beach, or aiding them 
m their search for shells after a receding tale. Sedate bachelors 
and prudish old maids not infrequently take part in such diver- 
sions as these, and, viewing the scenes from the cam of a pa- 
vilion one cannot help thinking that the intellects and the 
characters thus unbent, and finding a share in the enjoyments 
of childhood, appear to greater advantage by the relaxation. 



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61 



Year after year, summer after summer, this strange commin- 
gling of the young and the old, the high and the low, the rich 
and the poor, the grave and the gay, goes on in Atlantic City ; 
and so until the end of time, generation after generation, the 
charmed voice of the sea will draw men to its sands and to its 
surf. From the plains of the South, from the wide expanse of 
the West, and from the bleak, gray rim of the North, men, 
women and children will come and go, girdling our coast with 
joy and sorrow through the twelve months — months which 
make possible the winter's comfort and the summer's pleasure. 



THE- Summer «l 
GIGS 



SiUMMSR Will 

W8WVAKE 

w ease' 




NISA«MMtT|> 



Boardwalk and gtrand. 



Love the sea ? 



dote upon it — from the beach. 

— Douglas Jerrold. 



TLAXTIC CITY invented the 
boardwalk, and while other re- 
sorts have been content to tamely 
copy it, Atlantic City has length- 
ened and strengthened, rebuilt 
and renewed, until the present 
" Boardwalk," erected in the 
spring and early summer of 
[896, is forty feet wide, twelve 
feet high, and four miles long. 
It is constructed of steel, cost the 
city nearly $130,600, and is the 
only structure of the kind in the 
world. 

When one is tired or wants to 
study humanity, there is no place 
equal to the Boardwalk. As a 
study of some of the most unique phases of human character, a 
stroll along this crowded thoroughfare is worth a year of ordi- 
nary life. Its infinite variety preserves it from monotony, and 
never does it present the same aspect two days in succession. 

The life, the light and the color that one sees on this prome- 
nade during the early hours oi a summer evening are indescrib- 
able. It is an endless dress parade, a grand review in which 
everybody is one of the reviewers as well as one of the reviewed. 
The animation, the overflowing good-nature, the laughter and 
contagious hilarity oi this restless throng are irresistible. The 
lights from the scores of bazaars, the buoyant merriment of 
countless children, the soft, melting colors of the summer 
dresses o{ the women, the grace and freshened loveliness of the 
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women themselves, the dizzy whirl of the merry-go-round, the 
toboggan, the switchback, the figure-eight or the round-about 
and the thousand and one little scraps of life and tone that line 
the thoroughfare blend in a picture which is warranted to ban- 
quet the eye and rest the mind of any man who has not utterly 
lost the capacity for being entertained, and all to the soothing 
accompaniment of the caressing airs and the thunderous mono- 
tone of the blue, unresting sea. 

At the lower end of the city, at a point known as Seaview, 
there is a spacious new hotel, specially designed for excursion- 
ists — that is, persons who come down to spend a day at the sea- 
shore. This class aggregates many thousands. The house is 




AND LIFE-SAVING STATION. 



provided with a well-appointed restaurant, pleasant parlors, 
broad piazzas, a merry-go-round and a spacious ball-room. 
Starting from the vicinity of the Seaview Excursion House and 
following the Boardwalk in the direction of the Inlet, the pedes- 
trian comes to the lighthouse, situated at the northeastern end of 
the island, near the entrance to Absecon Inlet. 

From the balcony of the lighthouse a grand panorama of sea 
and land is presented. We behold there what the world looks 
like to a sea-gull ; and a grand waste of waters it seems, indeed. 
Looking north and west, across the extended miles of salt mea- 
dows, with their winding thoroughfares and bays, one sees the 
lines of pretty buildings and the fertile farms of the mainland. 



64 Hand-Book of Atlantic City. 

Stretching to the southwest is the beautiful city, with its grand 
hotels, its extensive boarding-houses, its hundreds of private 
cottages embowered in shrubbery and the long line oi shade- 
trees skirting the sidewalks ; while beyond, to the cast, and 
south, the ocean stretches into the distant horizon. 

There is nothing which inspires the mind of man like the 
lighthouses, which, crowning the headlands along shore, hash 
their warnings one to another and far out to sea. telling the 
sailor not only of his approach to land hut oi his position at sea 
also. John Quincy Adams said he never saw these coast-lights 
in the evening without recalling to mind the light that Colum- 
bus saw flashing from shore the night he discovered the New 
World. 

Main- delightful, dreamy hours may be spent upon the strand 
during the day when the weather is pleasant. The long stretch 
of sandy beach and the roar oi the surf may be uninteresting 
to some upon a gloomy daw but when the sun is shining all 
dreariness disappears, the ocean sparkles like a huge diamond, 
and groups of people wander along the strand or scoopout con- 
venient hollows, in which they lie for hours, enjoying the warm 
sun-bath and inhaling ozone at every breath. Bevies oi girls 
dressed in dainty costumes are scattered about on the sand, ami 
ripples of laughter come to one's ears from every side, bar out 
upon the horizon a faint trace of smoke may be seen ascending 
from a passing steamer, while above the horizon and sometimes 
just beyond the surf the white wings oi swift-sailing yachts or 
other craft lend a charm and a motion to the scene. Nothing 
could add to the quiet beauty of this scene or heighten the 
pleasure of those for whom it is created. 

From morning until evening the beach is a perfect paradise 
for children. The youngsters take to digging in the sand and 
paddling in the water by natural instinct, having unlimited 
opportunities for both. Every day they throw up fortifications, 
build mounds and excavate subterranean caverns, and every 
night the tide washes away all their labor and leaves a soft. 
smooth surface for another da} "s toil. 

The pleasures of the surf bath bring multitudes to Atlantic 
City during the summer months, ami bathing here attains a 
popularity unknown to more northern resorts, the near approach 
of the Gulf Stream to this point increasing the temperature of 
the water to a delightful degree, and taking from it the bitter 
chill from which so many would-be bathers shrink. At the 
fashionable hours oi bathing, from eleven to one. the beach is 
crowded with thousands of merry bathers, whose shouts and 
laughter mingle with the roar of the surf, while the strand and 
Boardwalk are lined with interested spectat us and promenaders. 
The scene at this time is as animated as the streets of a eouti- 




Residence of A. M. Jordan— Snellenberg Cottage, States Avenue— Academy of 
the Sacred Heart. 



Boardwalk and Strand. 65 

nental city on a fete day. At night when the electric lights 
are lit and the Boardwalk is thronged with merry promenaders, 
Atlantic City presents a picture of delightful existence, fairer 
than any vision of a midsummer night's dream. 




THE AUTUMN BREAK - -UP — THEY MAY 
NEVER MEET AGAIN. 




Cottage of William H. Lucas-Cottage of John Loughran-Cottage 
of S. E. Magarge. 



JVtysteries of t*ie pea. 



The whole creation is a mystery. 

—Sir Thomas Browne. 




ANY visitors enjoy a 
stroll along the strand 
at any hour of the day, 
and the walk 
will gener- 
ally repay 
the collector 
of sea-shells 
and marine 
grasses. A 
variety of 
shells are crumpled beneath the feet at almost every tread, and 
myriad specimens of marine grasses or sea algae are revealed to 
the practiced eye. Tlie latter, when cleaned and placed upon 
sheets of white paper or cardboard, are found to be of exceed- 
ingly delicate formation and color. They illustrate the beauty 
and perfection of Nature's handiwork. 

Of the many who gather these shells and grasses, however, 
very few realize that the ocean is the abode of millions of va- 
rieties of strange, living organisms, from the microscopic monad 
to the unwieldly leviathan, the horrid octopus, or the great 
whale. Nor do they know that the bed of the sea is the coun- 
terpart of the dry land. In it are high mountains, long valleys 
and broad plateaus. Upon many of these submarine plateaus 
the water is but a few feet in depth, while in the deep suba- 
queous valleys a depth of eight miles has been fathomed. The 
bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is a succession of mountain ranges, 
verdant valleys and sublime precipices, and it is susceptible of 
proof that there are vast submarine prairies, constantly decked 
in gorgeous floral garniture, over which the great leviathan and 
the whale and the lesser fishes disport at will. In some parts 
of these submarine continents crops of golden sheen and fructi- 

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ferous vines grow in inconceivable luxuriance, and wave upon 
the surface of the sea for hundreds of square miles, looking not 
unlike one boundless prairie. Their diversity in size is as great 
as in form, some species being visible only through the micro- 
scope, some a few inches, and others a few feet in length, while 
a single plant of one species which floats in the South American 
seas measures more than one hundred feet, and another which 
floats in the Pacific Ocean reaches the length of fifteen hundred 
feet. They have in no case proper roots, but merely processes 
for their attachment to the surfaces on which they are fixed. 
The gulf weed floats in long pieces in the Atlantic Ocean and 
all the great seas. It is carried in such quantities by the cur- 
rent into the Gulf of Mexico that it covers the sea in tracts many 
miles in breadth, giving it the appearance o[ a vast meadow. 
Many fabulous stories were related oi this gulf-weed by the 
mariners of the fifteenth century. Ships were said to have been 
stopped in their course, and the crews obliged to cut their way 
through with hatchets. The discoveries of Columbus put an 
end to these exaggerated reports. 

In the sea. also, are great coral mountains, with perpendicu- 
lar escarpments thousands of miles in length, in which are deep 
grottoes and caverns and lofty arches, with innumerable coral 
pinnacles and domes, more exquisite even than the ornately 
chiseled facade of a cathedral or palace. 

Science shows that millions of tons o\ chloride of sodium, or 
common salt, is held in solution, and that the sea contains vast 
quantities of magnesia and hme. It is estimated that every year 
a layer of the entire sea, fourteen feet thick, is taken up into the 
clouds by evaporation. This vapor is fresh, and if all the water 
could be removed in the same way and none of it returned, it is 
calculated that there would be left a layer of pure salt two hun- 
dred and thirty feet thick on the bed of the Atlantic. 

At a depth of about three thousand five hundred feet the tem- 
perature of the sea is uniform, varying but a trifle from the poles 
to the equator. The colder water is below. It is a common 
impression that waxes travel, but this is an error; the water 
does not move forward, though it seems to do so. It stays in 
the same place, but the rising and tailing moves on. We meas- 
ure waves by their height and by the distance from crest to crest. 
In deep water this latter distance is about fifteen times the height 
of the wave. In shallow water the proportion is less, and this 
makes a choppy sea. 

The pressure of the water increases, of course, as we go down. 
At the depth of a mile this pressure is reckoned at more than a 
ton to the square inch — that is, more than a hundred and thirty- 
three times the pressure of the atmosphere. 

To get correct sounding in deep water is difficult. A shot 




First Presbyterian Church— First Baptist Church— Hotel Traymore. 



Mysteries of the Sea. 69 

weighing thirty pounds carries down the line. Through this 
sinker a hole is bored, and through the whole is passed a rod of 
iron which moves easily back and forth. In the end of the bar 
a cup is dug out, and the inside is coated with lard. The bar is 
made fast to the line and a sling holds the shot on. When the 
bar, which extends below the shot, touches the bottom, the 
sling unhooks and the shot slides off. The cup in the end of 
the bar holds some of the sand, or whatever may be on the bot- 
tom, and a cover shuts over the cup to keep the water from 
washing the sand out. In this way we learn the character of 
the deep-sea bottom. 

The depth of the sea presents some interesting considerations. 
If the Atlantic were lowered six thousand five hundred and 
sixty-four feet, it would be reduced to half its present width. If 
it were lowered a little more than three miles, there would be 
dry land all the way between Newfoundland and Ireland. If 
the Mediterranean were lowered six hundred and sixty feet, 
Africa would be joined to Italy, and three separate seas would 
remain. 

The sea is divided into three liquid strata, or layers of water, 
of different densities and properties. In the lowest strata, or 
deepest part of the sea, we find the home of the Crustacea— such 
as crabs, lobsters and other like species ; at a depth of five or 
six hundred feet we enter the domain of the invertebrate and 
vertebrate fishes and the various mollusks ; in the third and su- 
perficial stratum we find minute animalculae, mostly observable 
by the microscope. 

The innumerable currents and tides, and the continual agita- 
tion from winds that blow upon its surface, and the unceasing 
evaporation and uninterrupted contribution of rain from the 
clouds— all these chemical and physical phenomena, with a 
thousand others, render the sea a fit and beautiful realm for its 
inhabitants. 

The color of the sea is not only a form of beauty, conveying 
pleasure to the mind, but it is for an all-wise purpose. It is an 
indisputable fact that the color of the water of the sea is im- 
parted to the fish which inhabit the particular locality, just as 
the plumage of birds corresponds to the foliage of the forests 
they inhabit. Why is this ? The similitude in color is a pro- 
tection to them. Their presence is not as readily betray ed to 
their enemies as if they were of different color. Deep-swimming 
fishes are invariably of bluish tint ; for example, the well-known 
blue-fish. The parrot-fish is of a scarlet color as vivid as that 
of the birds in the forests of the neighboring lands. The mullet 
is brilliant brown and gold, and the cod is invariably clad in 
Quaker gray. 

Not only does the sea furnish a vast home to the myriads of 



Mysteries of the Sea. 69 

weighing thirty pounds carries down the line. Through this 
sinker a hole is bored, and through the whole is passed a rod of 
iron which moves easily back and forth. In the end of the bar 
a cup is dug out, and the inside is coated with lard. The bar is 
made fast to the line and a sling holds the shot on. When the 
bar, which extends below the shot, touches the bottom, the 
sling unhooks and the shot slides off. The cup in the end of 
the bar holds some of the sand, or whatever may be on the bot- 
tom, and a cover shuts over the cup to keep the water from 
washing the sand out. In this way we learn the character of 
the deep-sea bottom. 

The depth of the sea presents some interesting considerations. 
If the Atlantic were lowered six thousand five hundred and 
sixty-four feet, it would be reduced to half its present width. If 
it were lowered a little more than three miles, there would be 
dry land all the way between Newfoundland and Ireland. If 
the Mediterranean were lowered six hundred and sixty feet, 
Africa would be joined to Italy, and three separate seas would 
remain. 

The sea is divided into three liquid strata, or layers of water, 
of different densities and properties. In the lowest strata, or 
deepest part of the sea, we find the home of the Crustacea — such 
as crabs, lobsters and other like species ; at a depth of five or 
six hundred feet we enter the domain of the invertebrate and 
vertebrate fishes and the various mollusks ; in the third and su- 
perficial stratum we find minute animalculae, mostly observable 
by the microscope. 

The innumerable currents and tides, and the continual agita- 
tion from winds that blow upon its surface, and the unceasing 
evaporation and uninterrupted contribution of rain from the 
clouds— all these chemical and physical phenomena, with a 
thousand others, render the sea a fit and beautiful realm for its 
inhabitants. 

The color of the sea is not only a form of beauty, conveying 
pleasure to the mind, but it is for an all-wise purpose. It is an 
indisputable fact that the color of the water of the sea is im- 
parted to the fish which inhabit the particular locality, just as 
the plumage of birds corresponds to the foliage of the forests 
they inhabit. Why is this ? The similitude in color is a pro- 
tection to them. Their presence is not as readily betrayed to 
their enemies as if they were of different color. Deep-swimming 
fishes are invariably of bluish tint ; for example, the well-known 
blue-fish. The parrot-fish is of a scarlet color as vivid as that 
of the birds in the forests of the neighboring lands. The mullet 
. is brilliant brown and gold, and the cod is invariably clad in 
Quaker gray. 

Not only does the sea furnish a vast home to the myriads of 



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animals that live in its waters, but it is the home of many of the 
feathered creatures, especially of that mysterious little bird 
known as " Mother Carey's Chicken." This bird is reared and 
makes its home upon the sea. It flits about incessantly by day, 
and at night it roosts upon the raging billows, tucking its head 
under its wing and going to sleep amid the roar of the tempest 
and the fury of the blast. The great billow is its cradle and the 
seething foam its sheet. 

The sea is the arena of the sublimest phosphorescent and pyro- 
technic phenomena exhibited by nature. This phosphorescence 
is caused by countless millions of sea animalculae, one-twelve- 
thousandth of an inch in length. It is not uncommon in tropical 
seas to see the phosphorescent current rushing past a vessel in 
a band of light so luminous that one can easily read the time of 
night upon the face of a watch, and the billows, as they are 
dashed aside by the bow of the ship, look like broad sheets of 
flame. Especially is the great Gulf Stream the theatre of sub- 
lime electrical phenomena. For a continuous, inexhaustible 
supply of fire-works and pyrotechnic beauties it is without a 
rival. It gives an exhibition upon the slightest occasion, and 
no ship ever ciosses that wonderful, tepid river of the sea with- 
out being flooded with sheets of vivid lightning and shaken by 
a terrific bombardment from the cloud batteries. 




wzm 









gtories of gttipWrecI^. 



But hark ! what shriek of death comes in the gale, 
Ami ia the distant ray what glimmering sail ? 
Ah! wretched mariners, no more shall day 
Unclose his cheering eye to light you on your way ! 

— Mrs. Radcliffe. 



THERE is not a mile of this beach that has not been the 
scene of a shipwreck at one time or another. Some 
places have witnessed many terrible marine tragedies, 
and the beach has been thickly strewn with the bodies 
of those who have made sad landing thereon. There are ill- 
fated crafts whose hulls even now lie half buried in the sands, 




rotting under the sky. One of these, that of the schooner 
"Anson Stinson," which came ashore in 1880, could be seen 
on the beach a few years ago, just below Mississippi Avenue. 

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Stories of Shipwreck. 73 

Tust prior to the Revolution the ship " Ellis," from Liverpool, 
came ashore upon the shoals, which at that time extended more 
than three miles from shore. She was loaded with tea. and had 
on board a British official who had been commissioned toenlorce 
the Stamp Act. It should suffice every patriotic inquirer to 
know that the representative of Great Britain's tyranny was 
smothered beneath the billows of Absecon Beach, and thrown 
upon the shore, as with indignation and disgust, a hmp and 
lifeless form. In the interim between September. [847, and 
January 1856, sixty-four vessels came ashore on this beach- 
five in one night. The loss of life was appalling. 

In 1810 a nameless craft, supposed to be piratical, was 
wrecked' upon this beach. The crew was taken off just before 
she went to pieces. Soon after they were landed, the captain, 
whose mind had been shattered by the disaster, handed his gold 
watch to the mate, and then deliberately walked into the suri 
and was drowned. The crew and wreckers joined hands and 
tried to rescue him. but in vain. His comrades said he had a 
large sum of specie on his person, and expressed much regret 
at its loss, but no sorrow for the loss of their whilom leader. 
They were villainous-looking men and confirmed the suspi- 
cions of their nefarious calling by mysteriously decamping m 

1 In^he winter of the same year the ship "George Cannon," 
from Liverpool, with a cargo of dry-goods and hardware came 
ashore. The boxes of dry-goods were thrown overboard and 
soon lined the strand. The off-shore people scented the prey 
and came in crowds, eager for the spoils. 1 hen began the most 
exciting game of hide-and-seek ever known on the seaboard. 
Cupidity and rapacity crushed out all sense of honor. Neigh- 
bor robbed neighbor. Holes were made in the hills and the 
boxes buried, but while the party who had hidden was gone to 
seek another, somebody would dig it out and convey it to 
another place of concealment. The night was bitter cold and 
two men who started for a house at Cedar Grove perished on 
the hills near by. ' , „. ... 

In 1830 the " Genghis Khan " was totally destroyed off this 
beach. The majority of the passengers were saved, including a 
little girl nine years of age, who was restored to her parents, tar 
out in the wilds of the West. Captain Burk, the commander of 
the vessel, committed suicide. g 

The schooner " General Scott " was wrecked in 1840. the 
captain was the only person saved. He floated ashore on a 
feather bed. . 

In 1846 a small schooner, commanded by Captain Lowe, ran 
ashore. As the wreck boat approached the scene of disaster the 
cries for help were more and more distressing. In the midst ot 



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the excitement in transferring the crew to land the skipper's 
wife fell into the waves and was drowned. 

FATE OF THE POWHATAN AND THE MANHATTAN. 

On April 16th, 1S54, the bark "Powhatan" was wrecked. 
Many of the bodies were washed ashore in this vicinity, and 
were buried on Brigantine, Rum Point and in the graveyards 
of the county. Captain Amasa Bo wen, afterward of the Atlantic 
City Life Saving Station, helped to inter fifty-four bodies in the 
cemetery at Smithville. For weeks after the occurrence bodies 
were seen floating around the waters of the inlets, bays and 
thoroughfares in such decomposed condition that it became 
necessary to bury them almost on the spot where they were 
found. The story, as told \>y one conversant with the facts, is 
herewith given : 

The fierce northeaster that began on April 14th, 1S54, raged for 
several days with unparalleled fury, strewing the entire coast 
with fragments of shipping. The ' ' Powhatan ' ' was a packet 
ship, heavily ballasted with iron. She had left Havre on the first 
of March, with three hundred German emigrants and officers. Ef- 
forts were made to sail before the wind, but, becoming ungovern- 
able, her sails were removed, and the vessel for hours struggled 
amid the waves with bare poles. What may have been experienced 
by those on board during this time will never be known, as no 
one lived to tell the story. On Saturday evening, at five 
o'clock, April 15th, she was driven with great force on the 
shoals at Long Beach, twenty-five miles above Atlantic City. 
The passengers were seen clinging to the leeward bulwark, with 
the sea constantly washing over them. Assistance was impos- 
sible, as any boat sent to their rescue would have been swamped, 
while the cries of the sufferers were heartrending. .Tossing on 
the surf, the vessel lay throughout Saturday night and all day 
Sunday — twenty-four hours. On Sunday afternoon the vessel 
broke in two, the masts fell, and at five o'clock a huge wave 
covered the entire wreck. Wrecking Master Jennings had re- 
ceived a message through the trumpet from Captain Meyers, ask- 
ing him "to save those washed ashore." On Tuesday forty 
bodies came ashore at Absecon and Brigantine Beach, and on 
Wednesday, April 19th, twenty eight persons were buried in the 
Baptist Church burying-ground in the little village of Manna- 
hawkin. 

About forty five bodies of the ' ' Powhatan ' ' came ashore 
along our Atlantic City beach, most of them at the foot of 
North Carolina Avenue. These bodies were conveyed by boat 
to Absecon and buried there. A child was clinging to the neck 
of a man when the bodv came ashore. 



Stories of Shipwreck. 75 



On the same Sunday evening the schooner "Manhattan," 
Captain Fields, of Bangor, Maine, came ashore in the gale, a 
half-mile below the wreck of the " Powhatan." She came 
within fifty yards of the shore. Paralyzed by fear, the crew 
shut themselves up in the cabin, but the gale made quick work 
of the schooner. In an hour she went to pieces, and all on 
board— nine persons, including the captain— were lost, except 
one. Thrown into the sea, five clung to a spar, and of these one, 
George Griffiths, succeeded in reaching the shore in an insensible 
condition. 

WRECKS OF THE ROCKAWAY, MORGAN AND GEESTEMUNDE. 

The ' ' Santiago de Cuba ' ' came ashore on this beach during 
a heavy fog in the fall of 1867. She was a side- wheel steamer, 
bound for New York from the Pacific coast, part of her cargo 
consisting of crude rubber. She was heavily freighted with pas- 
sengers, some 317, of all nationalities and colors, with many 
women and children among them. 

The inhabitants immediately went to their rescue, manning 
five life-boats. One was the Government boat from the life- 
saving station, situated at that time where South Atlantic now 
is. No crew was kept there. Citizens broke in, and brought 
the majority of the passengers ashore. 

While the crew were making gallant efforts to aid with the 
life-rafts, one was overturned, and three were drowned. One of 
the life boats was also overturned, causing a total loss of seven 
persons— four women, two sailors and a ten-year-old girl, one 
of the women being the child's mother. 

The child's body was washed ashore some days afterward. The 
corpse was kept until a zinc coffin could be procured and com- 
munication made with her relatives, who lived at Delphi, Illi- 
nois. When the grandfather of the child, an old man about 
seventy-five years of age, heard of the fate of his daughter and 
granddaughter, he became hopelessly insane and died six weeks 
after the news reached him. A Welshman, rescued from the 
same ship, returned to his own country, and an Irish girl who 
had accumulated a small fortune in California was among the 
unfortunate seven. One other female who was consigned to a 
watery grave was a Southern lady, who had been married only 
a few weeks. About three months later a woman from Michi- 
gan, whose husband had been missing for some time, appeared 
at Atlantic City and made inquiry concerning the sailors that 
had been lost. The body of one had been washed ashore and 
the description was given her. She concluded that the descrip- 
tion answered completely to her long-lost husband, and collected 
from the vessel-owners his back pay. 



76 Hand-Book of Atlantic City. 

The Rockaway," a newly launched excursion steamer, was 
wrecked near Pennsylvania Avenue, on March 25th, 1877. The 
boat had left Norfolk for New York on the previous Saturday in 
tow of the Old Dominion steamship " Wyanoke. ' ' She was built 
at-Atlantic City, near Norfolk, Virginia, and was designed for 
the excursion trade between New York and Rockaway Beach. 
The hawser parted during a heavy sea, after nightfall, and the 
new craft went to pieces. No lives were lost. The Rockaway 
was capable of accommodating four thousand passengers, and 
was one of the finest boats of the kind ever built. 

On January 9th. 1884, the handsome three-masted schooner, 
" Robert Morgan," from New Haven, came ashore at the foot 
of New York Avenue. She was left stranded high and dry at 
low water and people walked and rode around her. Children 
played in the sand between the ' ' Morgan ' ' and the ebbing tide. 
She remained imbedded in the sand for more than five months 
and was visited by thousands of people who came to Atlantic 
City. An admission fee of ten cents was charged, and photo- 
graphs of the wreck found a ready sale at twenty-five cents 
each. When finally floated, on the nth of June, she was com- 
paratively uninjured. 

The German bark, " Geestemunde," came ashore during a 
high wind opposite Seaview, on the evening of September 12th, 
1889. _ She was bound from Stettin, North Germany, for Phila- 
delphia, laden with cement and empty coal-oil barrels, and was 
fifty-five days out. The crew of eighteen men were taken off 
by John Trenwith, of Seaview, and the crew of the life-saving 
station, but the cargo was a total loss. The vessel went to 
pieces two weeks later. Before going to pieces she was an 
object of much interest on the beach. 



A ROMANCE OF THE WAVES. 

A storm 01 nearly a month's uninterrupted fury : that piled 
the coast of New Jersey with wrecks and washed hundreds of 
bodies of seamen ashore ; that made Cape May an island ; that 
raged along the whole coast, from Labrador to Mexico— such 
was the great storm of December, 1826, and January, 1827. On 
the morning of December 12th, the wind began to blow from 
the northeast, and by night had increased to a hurricane. On 
New Year's day, within three miles of Lewes, on Delaware Bay, 
there were two hundred vessels ashore, two hundred and twelve 
bodies were collected and buried, and two million dollars' worth 
of property was destroyed. On Sunday, January 7th, a fisher- 
man named Hughes, gathering wreckage on the coast below 
this beach, saw, some distance from the shore, what seemed to 
be a box fastened between two barrels. After much trouble he 



Stories of Shipwreck. 



77 



secured the prize, which proved to be a cradle covered with 
canvas and lashed between two casks. He removed the covering 
and there lay a child, apparently dead. He carried both cradle 
and babe home, where his wife revived the hapless little derelict 
and by night it was apparently none the worse for its terrible 
struggle for life. In the cradle was a writing telling the story. 
Captain Fane — =• and wife, on 



board a Bo 
no hope of es- 
save their on- 
by commit- 
dence and the 
In the course 
the child was 
tives in Bos- 
Fane, as the 
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ton brig, having 
cape, sought to 
ly child, a girl, 
ting it to Provi- 
mercy of the sea. 
of a few months 
taken by re la- 
ton. E me line 
child was named, 
beautiful andac- 
woman , and went 




to England on a visit to relatives, where she was wooed and won 
by a nephew of Warren Hastings, the famous Governor General 
of India. Her husband died three years after the marriage, and 
she married an Australian millionaire named Shelbin. They 
embarked on the "Wanderer," a British clipper ship, bound for 
Sydney, Australia, and no tidings were ever had of the vessel 
thereafter. The sea again claimed the child of the wreck. 
This great storm of 1826 had a humorous as well as a pa- 



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79 



thetic side. The saving of wreckage turned out to be a " tur- 
key and buzzard " deal, in which the ship owner got the buz- 
zard. When one captain got his salvage statement, giving him 
a credit for only one hundred and twenty-four dollars, he mur- 
mured, " Why, that is flat piracy," and so the evil repute of 
the enterprising wrecker originated. One man near Egg Harbor 
Inlet secured and sold one hundred and eighty casks oi French 
brandy, but he fell into the hands of the custom-house officers 
and was sent to jail for smuggling. 

Numerous other wrecks might be mentioned out of the three 
hundred of which there is a record. Before the establishment 
of life-saving stations on the coast and the building of the light- 
house, in 1857, there was scarcely a night during severe weather 
that a vessel did not come ashore. But since the establishment 
of these humane institutions shipwrecks and drownings are of 
rare occurrence. As nearly as can be ascertained, at least six 
hundred vessels have been stranded or wrecked and five hun- 
dred people have been drowned on account of shipwreck within 
the past seventy years upon this beach or within sight of it. 

Then drifted ashore, in a night-gown dressed, 

A waif of a girl with her sanded hair, 
And hands like a prayer on her hosom pressed, 

And a smile on her lips that was not despair ; 
No stitch on her garment ever to tell 
Who bore her, who lost her, who loved her well. 

***** 
" What name ?"' asked the preacher. " God knows," they said, 
Nor waited nor wept as they made her bed, 
But sculptured " God knows " on the slate at her head. 




Qunning and pishing. 



We may say of fishing, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries : " Doubtless God 
could have made a better berry, but He never did," and so, if I may be the judge, 
God never did make a more calm, quiet and innocent recreation than fishing. — 
Isaak Walton. 




OWHERE else along the coast are 
there greater facilities for sport with 
the rod and the gun than in the 
vicinity of Atlantic City. The bays 
and thoroughfares are a vast water 
preserve, with Nature for their 
keeper. From Grassy Bay and Lit- 
tle Egg Harbor on the north to Great 
Egg Harbor and Lake's Bay on the 
south, from the wreck of the " Cassan- 
dra ' ' to the wreck of the ' ' Divert}-, ' ' 
fish of large size and fowl of many 
kind are found in abundance. The 
thoroughfares, sounds and bays 
teem with millions of the finny tribe 
at certain seasons of the year, while the woods on the mainland, 
or ''off-shore," if we may use the local vernacular, are splendid 
feeding grounds for quail in the fall months. The meadows also 
abound with duck, geese, plover, snipe, marlin, curlew and 
marsh-hens. Nowhere can the hunter or angler go amiss. It is 
generally safe to carry the gun or the line, for the fruits thereof 
will amply repay the drudgery. The waters of the sea and bays 
and the outlying marshes and woodland contain enough to keep 
the fisherman and hunter in keen quest after their game 

A favorite feeding ground for the robin-breast, or robin-snipe, 

is the sod beach on Brigantine. An old hunter says that for 

fifteen years, he shot them on this spot from behind a blind 

near Smith's hotel before daybreak, catching a bead on their 

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nimble bodies only when the white comb of a breaker flashed in 
the background. 

Curlews, both of the long bill and crooked bill varieties, are 
in good flight in the spring and fall of the year. The latter are 
called on the shore horse foot curlews, from a habit they have of 
eating the eggs of the king or horse-shoe crab. 

Every variety of beach bird can be bagged in the spring, if 
the sportsman is speedily on the ground, and a few straggling 
birds may be killed as late as the 15th of June. The gunning 









WILD DUCK IN GRASSY HAY 



is equally good in the fall, when the birds make their annual 
flight southward. September is generally a good mouth to test 
the sportsman's mettle and skill, and, with perseverance, he is 
sure to return laden with small game. Nor will he need any 
soothing syrup to woo his natural rest ; his peregrinations will 
bring him both appetite, fatigue and stamina. Woodcock may 
be killed in July, October and November, plover after August 
1 st, and marsh-hens after August 25th. For extra sport in 
wing shot in the spring and fall the sportsman must visit Grassy 
Bay, which is convenient of access by yachts from the Inlet, 



82 Hand-Book of Atlantic City. 

■where wild duck, brant and geese are found in superior num- 
bers. At low water this bay falls dry, and for an area of many 
square miles is a feeding ground for every kind of fowl that is 
common to salt water. Here is found the blue-bill, the black 
duck, the long-neck, the red-head, the dipper, the cub-head, the 
widgeon, the granny and the shelldrake. Marlin, willet, 
plover, robin-snipe, graybacks, calico-backs, black breast and 
all other snipe are also to be found upon the bars of this bay. 

Besides Grassy Hay, there is good gunning in Atlantic County 
in and around Little Bay, Reed's Bay, Absecon Bay. Eagle 
Bay. Duck Thoroughfare, Newfound Water, Dole's Island, 
Mankiller Bay, Gull Island Cove, Oyster Thoroughfare Islands, 
Shelter Islands, Jonas' Island, Pook Island and Lake's Bay. 

There is usually very good quail and rabbit shooting in the 
woods and fields on the mainland. This is 

In the brilliant autumn-time, the most brilliant of all, 
When the gorgeous woods are gleaming, ere the leaves begin to fall ; 
When the maple boughs are crimson, and the hickory shines like gold, 
When the noons are sultry hot, and the nights are frosty cold. 

When the country has no green, but the sword-grass on the rill, 
And the willows in the valley, and the pine upon the hill; 
When the pippin leaves the bough, and the sumac's fruit is red, 
And the quail is piping loud, from the buckwheat where he fed. 

When the sky is blue as steel, and the river clear as glass. 
When the mist i> on the ocean, and the network on the grass; 
When the harvests are all housed, and the fanner's work is done, 
Ami the woodland is resounding with die spaniel and the gun. 



The following information will be of permanent value to those 
who may wish to go in quest of any of the varieties, of fish or 
fowl which are found here at certain seasons of the vear : 



FISH. 

Blue-Fish. — Appear about the middle of May ; leave in 
October. 

Sheepshead. — Appear about the ioth of June ; leave in 
October, 

Weak-Fish. — Appear in May ; leave in October. 

Striped Bass. — Found in the rivers on the coast the entire 
winter ; more plentiful in summer. 

WHITE Perch. — Come early and remain late ; chiefly found 
in brackish waters and in rivers 

Black Fish. — Bite from ist of June, and cease ist of October. 



Gunning and Fishing. 83 

Sea Bass.— Taken first of June until October. 

King Fish. -Come in July and remain until October. 

Flounders (Summer).— Oblong in shape; come in June; 
stay until October. 

Flounders (Winter). — Flounder proper ; come in October ; 
leave in Maw 

PORGIES. - Abundant along the coast after July. 

Spot, or Goody. — Summer fish. 

Codeisii. — Taken late in autumn and in winter. 



FOWL. 

Wild Geese and Brant. — Arrive about the 1st of October 
and remain until the last of March. 

Black Ducks. — Arrive late in September and remain until 
the 1st of April. They are sometimes seen here in summer. 

Broad Bills.— Arrive about the 15th of October. 

Cub Heads, Dippers and Red Heads. — Habits similar to 
broad bills. Arrive in October and remain until April ist. 

Gray Ducks and Teal-— Arrive September ist, leave in 
November; come again for a short time in spring on their 
northern migration. 

ENGLISH Snipe. — Make their appearance about the ist of 
April, remain but a short time, go north, and return in October 
on their way south. 

Wilson Snipe, Robin Snipe, Curlews and Yellow 
Legs. — Come about the ist of May, make short stay, return in 
July, and remain till October. 

WiLLETT. — Willetts remain and breed in salt marshes. 

Plover. — The several varieties arrive in May. remaining 
during the summer. 

Tei.l-Tales. — Arrive in May and pass northward ; return in 
autumn for a short stay. 

But remember that there are in New Jersey certain enact- 
ments which must be respected. They are known as " Game 
Laws." They prohibit persons who are gunning lor geese, 
brant or ducks from placing their decoys further off from the 
edge of the marsh, island, bar, hank, blind or ice than three 
rods' distance. All persons are prohibited from pursuing any 
fowl after night with a light. This class of sportsmen are called 
"pot hunters," and are held in disrepute by legitimate 
sportsmen. 

The fish most taken hereabouts are the weak-fish, king-fish, 
flounder, sheepshead. sea bass, black-fish and the Cape May 
goodies. The weak- fish are the most sought after, and are 
caught nearly everywhere ; being gamy, they afford sport to the 






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Longport, tfentnor and Chelsea. 




ISITORS to Atlantic City should 
not fail to see Longport, 

Ventnor and Chelsea, 
which bear much the same 
relation to Atlantic City that 
the numerous suburban vil- 
lages bear to the two great 
cities of New York and 
Philadelphia. They are ad- 
juncts and not rivals of the 
older and larger p 1 a c e . 
Longport is a collection of 
attractive homes below Atlantic City, and occupies the western 
end of the island, bordering on Great Egg Harbor Inlet Its 
water advantages are unique. The ocean, the inlet and the 
Thoroughfare surge restlessly or wave pleasantly on three sides 
of it The island narrows and is scarcely more than one square 
in width in the improved portion of Longport, rendering both 
bathing and fishing convenient. The ocean beach is broad, 
smooth and level, making a fine promenade ground when the 
tide is out and safe bathing when the tide is in. Fish are abun- 
dant in the Thoroughfare, and are caught steadily from the pier 
and breakwaters, which accommodate and protect the shore at 
different angles. . 

M S McCullough purchased the site of Longport, some 
two hundred and fifty acres, of James Long in 1882, and named 
the town which he immediately laid out, in honor of the former 
owner. Improvements have gone on steadily. Broad streets 
have been made and graveled, a boardwalk has been built along 
the beach railroad and telephonic communication made with 
Atlantic City, and a post-office established. The wharfage is 
crood little steamers meeting trains and making regular trips to 
Ocean City and Somers' Point, thus affording a through route 
to those places from Philadelphia. Sail-boats accommodate 
those who desire such recreation. 

The buildings of Longport are all first-class. Temperance 

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86 Hand-Book of Atlantic City. 

and sanitary restrictions in the deeds possess attractions for 
those who summer there. The bearing of the place is literary 
rather than fashionable. 

One hotel accommodates many guests and is supplied with 
all modem conveniences, including hot sea-water baths. The 
cottages are diverse in architectural design. The Bay-View 
Club-House is a substantial structure and is the headquarters 
of the Bay- View Club, which is composed of Philadelphia gen- 
tlemen. 

A few squares below the lower limit of Atlantic City is a select 
suburb, called Chelsea. It is laid out on a comprehensive scale 
with wide streets and large lots, those fronting on Pacific Ave- 
nue being sixty feet wide and the corner ones sixty five feet. 
Restrictions embodied in the deeds require all houses to be set 
back a good distance from the street, and prevent them also 
from being crowded closely together. Only one building for 
dwelling-house purposes is permitted on each lot. No liquor 
saloon or other undesirable places are allowed in the place, and 
stringent regulations govern the drainage arrangements. The 
Camden & Atlantic Railroad has a station at Chelsea, and 
both the electric cars and omnibuses convey passengers to and 
from the city. 

Ventnoris still another nearby resort. It is two miles below 
Atlantic City, and is accessible by the motor cars to Longport. 
The various amusements and diversions of Atlantic City are 
easily accessible by train, drive or beach, while freedom from 
noise and perfect rest are assured by its suburban location. A 
large and thoroughly appointed hotel is open for guests. 




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JVEortuary Statistics. 



gESIDES the testimony of those who have been to Atlantic 
City and found healing in its atmosphere, another evi- 
dence of the salubrity of its climate is its low death-rate. 
The statistics given in the table below are taken from the 
official records of the various State Boards of Health, the Na- 
tional Board of Health having published nothing on the sub- 
ject of vital statistics since 1885, on account of the lack of 
appropriations by Congress : 



Rate per 1,000. 

Bristol, Conn 31 .04 

* harleston, S. C 29.16 

Boston, Mass 28.57 

Brooklyn, X. V 28.31 

Newark, X. J 28.12 

Stamford, Conn 28.06 

Vallejo, Cal 26 18 

Richmond , Va 25 .44 

New York 25.31 

Cambridge, Mass 25.12 

Plattsburg, X". Y 25.00 

Milwaukee, "Wis 24.52 

Washington, I>. C 2445 

Wilmington, I Hi 23.47 

Rochester, X T . V 23.39 

Nashville, Tenn 23.11 

Cahill, Ala 2305 

Savannah, Ga 22.54 

Asheville, X. C 22.44 

Chicago, 111 22.17 

St. Louis, Mo 22.12 

Providence, R. 1 22.07 

Pittsburgh, Pa 21.59 

Baltimore, Md 21.53 



Kate per 1,000. 

Philadelphia 21.20 

Norfolk, Va 21.19 

Cleveland, ( >hio 21.18 

Youngstown, Ohio 20.99 

Worcester, Mas- 20.05 

Raleigh, N. C 20.00 

Eyansville, Ind r 9-52 

Norwalk, Conn 1 9.50 

San Francisco 1 9.48 

Cincinnati, ( >hio 'Q.OQ 

1 1 art lord, Conn 1 8.63 

Jacksonville, 111 18 26 

Buffalo, N. V 17.33 

New Haven, Conn 16.50 

Clarksville, Tenn t I 5-5° 

Keokuk, Iowa 15.10 

Fostoria, Ohio 14-75 

Santa Cruz, Cal I 3- 2 9 

Concord, N. II 13.20 

Amsterdam, X. V 12.85 

\\ alt ham. Mass 1 2.60 

1 os Angeles, Cal 12.60 

Atlantic City 1 2.50 

Ashtabula, Ohio 1 2.00 



Atlantic City being a popular resort for invalids, especially 
those suffering from chronic diseases, the actual number of 
deaths within its limits is necessarily large. This is especially 
the case in summer, when large numbers of infants suffering 
from diseases incident to childhood at that season of the year 
are brought here, some of them in a dying condition when they 




Pacific Avenue Eastward from States Avenue— Yachtsmen's Pier and Pavilion. 



Mortuary Statistics. 



89 



arrive In places like Atlantic City there are various institu- 
dorTfor the P sick, where the death-rate is also large. Moreover, 
Zwof our permanent residents are what physicians call im- 
paired lives ''-persons with chest, rheumatic, nervous or other 
troubles who live here throughout the year on account of he 
relief which the climate affords. These are counted among he 
permanent residents in making up the death-rate, though they 
rfgh ly belong to the non-residents. Sufficient is shown by the 
abovetable, however, to satisfy any one that Atlantic : City has 
a death-rate much lower than that of most any other city in the 
county The well-ascertained healthfulness of this cxty has made 
it as much an invalid's as it is a tourist's resort Thereis no 
limit to its popularity with the medical profession, who are 
^mLrtmanimous in pronouncing it the best winter and summer 
home for their patients. 




On the health question, the official mortuary table is the one 
place to go. Here we find that the death-rate among the resi- 
dent population of Atlantic City is only 12.5. . There are but 
two places in the United States in which the visits of the De- 
stroyer show any approximation to such rarity. One is me 
rural town of Ashtabula, Ohio, which reports 12.0, and the 
other the boasted climate of Los Angeles, which reports 126, 
one- tenth of one per cent, higher than the death-rate of Atlantic 
Well may the inhabitants say, like the man who had lived to 
the age of 130 in Tasmania, " I am going over to \ ictona to 
die. No one ever dies in Tasmania." 



Ground and About. 



PLACES OF INTEREST IN AND NEAR ATLANTIC CITY AND OTHER 
INFORMATION FOR VISITORS. 



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O Atlantic City belongs 
the credit of having 
introduced 
what is 



now a 

feature 




of a dozen seaside [■ 
resorts — the al( ^r^'i < 
boardwalk. ^jp§H|i 
This was first |f|pi3 
built in 1870, -*£P 
five thousand 
dollars being 
raised for that 
purpose by ^ 
the sale of 

■city scrip. I fi^MX > J||| The venture was re- 

garded in an tflJSf t^ ■ i 'TR* 1 unfavorable light by 
many of the ""P" '"''^ conservative citizens, some of whom were 
large owners of real estate, but the younger men carried the project 
through on money privately borrowed until the issue of the city's 
obligations could be legalized. The boardwalk was destroyed by severe 
storms in the winter of 1883-4, but was rebuilt in a more substantial 
manner in the spring of 1884, at a cost of less than ten thousand dollars. 
Five years later (September 10, 1889), another storm made almost a 
complete wreck of the walk, but before another summer it was rebuilt 
wider, higher and stronger than ever, with an unobstructed view on 
the seaward side. The completion of this walk was celebrated with a 
grand torchlight and fireworks procession of citizens, secret societies, 
militia and firemen, on the night of May 10, 1890, just eight months, 
to the day, after its destruction. The total cost of this improvement, 
including the purchase of land and buildings by condemnation, was 
forty-seven thousand dollars. 

This walk, now about four miles in length, and extending from the 
Inlet to Seaview, is the distinctive feature of Atlantic City. It follows 
the contour of the beach just above the line of high water, and is 
lighted with the electric light its entire length. In summer time, 
when the beach is crowded and the promenade thronged with pedes- 
trians, Atlantic City presents a scene of gayety un equaled anywhere 
else in the country. There you see pale city visitors down for their 
health ; rosy-cheeked girls out for pleasure ; gray-beards who are get- 
ting ready to throw away their crutches ; matrons who turn restfully 
from the turmoil of the town to the tumult of the sea ; mothers who 
are sunning their darlings in tbe warm, wind-swept breath of old ocean ; 
children who are unconsciously gaining strength and spirit in their 
eager pursuit of fun ; business and professional men who have turned 
90 



Around and About. 91 

from the bar, the clinic, the counting-room and the rostrum to the 
very different strife of sea and sun, while the man of the world, the 
student of his race, the philosopher and observer of many climes, 
looks over and into it all and forgets that there is any but a pleasant 
side to existence. 

I/ig'hthouse. — The lighthouse is an object of much interest, at 
the northeastern end of the island, the house of the keeper facing 
Rhode Island Avenue. The extreme height of the tower, from base 
to pinnacle, is one hundred and sixty-seven feet, to outside gallery 
one hundred and fifty feet, and to the focus of the lamp, one hundred 
and fifty-nine feet. The ascent of the gallery is by two hundred and 
twenty-eight spiral steps. The lamp is what is known as Funck's 
mineral-oil lamp, with fixed white light and Fresnel lens of the first 
order, and from the deck of a vessel can be distinguished from other 
lights at a distance of nineteen miles. The lighthouse is open to visitors 
from nine A. M. to twelve M. in summer time, and from eleven to twelve 
in the winter season, Sundays and stormy days excepted. 

The great number of wrecks that were continually occurring on the 
beach caused Dr. Jonathan R. Pitney and other gentlemen to turn their 
attention to the absolute necessity that existed for the erection of a 
lighthouse on this beach. Between 1834 and 1840 the proposal was 
first agitated. After a great waste of trouble and money, a Congres- 
sional appropriation of five thousand dollars was at last voted, upon 
the proviso that a satisfactory report should be first made by a com- 
petent official of the Naval Department. Commodore La Vallette was 
commissioned to make the report. He visited the beach, examined 
the coast, and requested a letter from Dr. Pitney on the subject. 
Notwithstanding the exertions of Dr. Pitney, the Commodore made 
an unfavorable report, and the lighthouse project slept for several 
years. In 1853, after the railroad had been surveyed, Dr. Pitney again 
agitated the subject. He circulated petitions for signatures, wrote to 
Congressmen, and published articles in the newspapers. The result 
of these labors was the granting of an appropriation of thirty-five 
thousand dollars for a lighthouse. Thus Atlantic City has to-day one 
of the best lighthouses in the country, which, with later improvements, 
cost upward of fifty thousand dollars. The tower of the lighthouse 
was first illuminated in January, 1857. 

The lighthouse is a perpetual snare for birds. In their spring and 
fall migrations birds of all descriptions, from the wild goose to the 
bobolink, are attracted at night by the light in the tower, and dash 
against it with such force as to kill about one-third of their number. 
The others, maimed and bleeding, flutter against the screen outside until 
taken in by the humane keeper. The live birds are kept until morning 
in perforated pasteboard boxes and then released. As many as four 
hundred and eighty-one birds, dead or alive, have been entrapped in 
a single night in the manner described. In a letter to Major A. G. 
Wolf, the lighthouse keeper, by Dr. C. Hart Merriam, head of the 
Division of Kconomic Ornithologv at Washington, the latter says: 
"Your reports are the most complete and valuable schedules received 
from any light station during the past season, and we are grateful for 
the trouble you have taken in preparing them." 

I/ife-Saving; Station.— The Atlantic City Life-Saving Station is 
situated at Pacific and Vermont Avenues, and is in charge of a captain, 
with seven assistants. The present building was finished in December, 
1884, and is one of the finest life-saving stations on the coast of the 



92 Hand- Book of Atlantic City. 

United States. It is a pretty Gothic structure, with three rooms and 
a pantry on the first floor and three rooms on the second. Above the 
roof there is a tower or lookout, where a constant watch is kept for 
vessels in distress. The building is open to visitors at all hours of 
the day, and the obliging captain, or any of his assistants, will take 
pleasure in explaining to any one the method of saving life and 
property from destruction by the fury of the elements. On the first 
clear day of each week the crew goes through an interesting drill 
with the mortar and lifeline, sea-car and surf-boat, beginning at eight 
o'clock in the morning. 

The first life-saving station established on this beach was opened 
nearly forty years ago, and was known as the Government Boat-House, 
with Ryan Adams as keeper. It stood near Connecticut and Pacific 
Avenues, about where the Ocean Sanatorium now stands. When James 
Buchanan was elected President, Samuel Adams succeeded Ryan 
Adams, holding the position for five years, when Barton Gaskill was 
appointed by President Lincoln. He retained the position for sixteen 
consecutive years. When the improved system was adopted, in con- 
formity with an act of Congress, approved June 18, 1878, the station 
was moved to its present site, in the rear of the lighthouse, Captain 
Amasa Bowen being then appointed keeper. The present keeper is 
Timothy Parker. The system of life-saving is interesting to every 
American visitor, because of the fact that it is considered the best 
organized and most efficient in the world. There are eight seamen 
on duty, who patrol the coast at night on the lookout for vessels in 
distress. 

Weather Bureau. — The United States Weather Bureau in Atlantic 
City is situated at Atlantic and New York Avenues. This station was 
opened December 10, [873, in the Government Life-Saving House, about 
one hundred yards from the lighthouse. Subsequently it was removed 
to its present location. The anemometer, wind-gauge and rain-gauge 
are on well exposed parts of the building. Visitors will be welcomed by 
the observer, who takes his observations at eight A. M. and eight P. M., 
and finds pleasure in explaining the methods of conducting the service. 

Thoroughfare. — The Thoroughfare is a sheet of water that abounds 
in the finest fish, oysters, crabs and clams, and is the rendezvous of a 
fleet of graceful yachts, in which the visitor can cruise for pleasure 
or for fishing, either on the smooth waters of the inlet, or upon the 
briny waters of the Atlantic. Omnibuses and the electric cars will 
convey visitors to the wharves, where boats can be hired and fishing- 
tackle procured at a moderate charge. 

Brigantine and Peters' Beach.— Brigantine is situated across 
the Inlet from Atlantic City and can be reached by ferry or sail from 
the Inlet wharf. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad also reaches 
the place by way of a trestle railway across the meadows. Brigantine 
is chiefly noted for the fishing in the vicinity, while several pavilions 
contribute toward the pleasure of visitors. This beach is one of the 
old-time resorts for sportsmen who enjoy "roughing it." For this 
sort of pleasure it is one of the choicest places along the coast. Blue- 
fish, flounders, porgics, bass and weak-fish are caught in abundance. 
The adjacent meadows and marshes are alive with snipe, curlew, 
marlin and the whole family of wading birds. Wild geese, duck, brants 
and teal are to be had in large quantities in season. The crabbing is 
exceptionally good, and the bathing is safe. The upper end of this 
beach was for many years the breeding place for sea-gulls. Myriads 



Around and About. 93 

of these birds would congregate there. The eggs were laid in the 
sand, the nest being a mere hollow, with sometimes a few twigs and 
leaves. The breeding time was July and August. Then the beach was 
well worth visiting. As a fowl for table use the sea-gull is not a 
delightsome luxury. If you want something particularly tough, oilv, 
fishy and otherwise disagreeable to eat, shoot a sea-gull and cook it. 
That is to say, if you are an exceptionally good shot, for there are few 
birds which are more difficult to bring down when on the wing. 

Hot and Cold Baths. — The hot sea-water baths are in great favor 
with visitors to Atlantic City, and invalids especially derive great 
benefit from them. Persons suffering from rheumatism have often 
been permanently cured. Freshness and vigor are imparted to all who 
use them. They are better than medicines, and physicians recommend 
them. Many prefer the hot baths to surf-bathing, even in summer 
time. There are several of these bathing places on the Boardwalk, 
and some of the hotels are supplied with hot sea-water baths. 

Michigan Building. — Thousands of people have noticed an attrac- 
tive cottage on States Avenue, without knowing anything of its history. 
This building was purchased by Barclay Ljppincott at the close of the 
Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and removed to Atlantic City 
in sections. It was one of the most artistically designed and finely 
finished State buildings on the Centennial grounds, the airy and 
graceful proportions of the superstructure culminating in a high villa 
tower. The building is made of native Michigan woods, and the 
interior is adorned with rich engravings of oiled and polished wood 
of every variety grown in the State. A room on the second floor, 
used as a parlor at the Centennial, is a gem of comfort and taste. 

Casino. — The Casino is located on the boardwalk, overlooking the 
sea, near the foot of Indiana Avenue. It affords various kinds of 
amusements for adults and all reasonable attractions for the little folks. 
The sun parlors are especially adapted for the use of the many invalids 
and convalescents who find new life in our health-giving ozone during 
the spring months. Adjacent to these sun parlors are the office of 
the Casino and the reception room, the latter supplied with massive 
open fire-places. Above the reception room, and reached by broad, 
easy steps, is the assembly room, suitably furnished with a stage used 
for private theatricals, readings, musicales, and similar entertainments. 
On all sides of the assembly room are sun parlors, reading and 
smoking rooms. 

In the one-story extension at the rear are well lighted and well 
ventilated dressing rooms for surf-bathing, luxuriously furnished hot 
and cold sea-water baths, and also well appointed dressing rooms for 
the patrons of the adjoining natatorium. This large swimming pool 
is built of brick, with concrete bottom and white marble sides, and 
is the finest on this continent. Beyond the pool are bowling alleys 
and shuffle-board parlors. 

A broad promenade, passing through the centre of the building, 
connects the reception room with all of 'these apartments, or they may 
be more privately reached through an enclosed passage running' along 
the west side of the edifice. At the end of this passage is a porte 
cochere, for the benefit and protection of those patrons of the Casino 
who arrive in carriages. At one side of the main building is a general 
mart and underneath the reception room and sun parlors is a children's 
playroom, where the little ones may romp and playto their heart's 
content. 



94 Hand-Book of Atlantic City. 

The Casino is conducted on the club plan, but admission is by 
tickets, instead of introduction, and the proprietor reserves the right 
to exclude any one for any cause. This is done to make it as select as 
possible for visitors. 

The subscription is 50 cents a day, or $2.50 a week. This includes 
admission, day and evening, to the daily concerts and to the dances, 
two of which are given every week. " The cost of the Casino was 
$60,000. 

Girls' Friendly Society.— The House of Rest of the Girls' 
Friendly Society is located at Rhode Island and Atlantic Avenues. It 
is under the management and auspices of the Girls' Friendly Society 
of the Dioceses of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and is a memorial 
to Miss Letitia Townsend, the late General Secretary of the Order in 
America. 

Boys' Free Reading Room. — The Stephens Working Boys' Free 
Reading Room is located on Indiana Avenue, below Atlantic. The 
building was erected with money contributed by Mrs. C. A. Stephens, of 
Manayunk, Philadelphia, and combines a lecture room, a reading room, 
a library of nearly 700 volumes, and a museum. It is open every 
evening during the week, with one or more of the lady managers in 
attendance, and the average attendance of boys is about fifty. Visitors 
are cordial^ welcomed. 

Post Office. — The Post Office is prominently located on Atlantic 
Avenue, between Tennessee and New York Avenues. The letter boxes 
are distributed throughout the city, from which collections are made 
several times daily. Nearly all hotels have drop boxes in the offices 
where letters may be posted. Mail matter addressed to individuals, at 
the hotel at which they are staying, cannot be obtained at the general 
delivery window in the post office. The regulations of the department 
require it to be sent to the addressed hotel. All postal business which 
properly belongs to a first-class office may be transacted at the city 
office. 

Sea "View. — The excursion house at Sea View, below Chelsea, is 
the handsomest structure of its kind in this country. Hither all the 
daily excursionists from Philadelphia and vicinity are taken, and here 
they rendezvous before taking the train for home in the evening. 
There are always interesting scenes around the excursion house, and 
a half-day can be very pleasantly spent in that way. The electric cars 
couvev passengers to the door of the building. 

Handsome Residences. — The Disston Villa, on Indiana Avenue, 
opposite the Brighton, is the finest private residence in Atlantic City. 
The head of the Disston family established a large business at Tacony, 
a northern suburb of Philadelphia. He made saws, and the impression 
got abroad that his saws were the best in the market. They sold 
rapidlv, and he grew verv rich. He was an early believer in Atlantic 
City, and purchased the entire block between Park and Indiana Avenues, 
from Pacific to the sea. He died before he had enjoyed the beautiful 
home he had reared, and his sou now occupies the mansion. It is an 
English country villa, with a pretty parte cochere facing the street. 
Other attractive residences similar to the Disston villa are to be seen 
on the principal avenues, notably that of George Allen, at Pacific and 
Maryland Avenues ; the cottage "of Mrs. Henry Disston, at Pacific and 
Indiana Avenues; what is commonly called the Laducr villa, on Spates 
Avenue ; the mansion on Pennsylvania Avenue built by Thomas V. 



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England, millionaire leather merchant, of Philadelphia, now owned by 
George Kelley ; the Siddalls' residence, at Pacific and States Avenues ; the 
cottages of John Loughran, Samuel Magarge and A. M. Jordan, on North 
Carolina Avenue; the T. J. Dickerson, Charles Evans and Thomas M. 
Thompson residences on Pennsylvania Avenue ; Dr. Crosby and Lewis 
Evans, on Atlantic Avenue ; the residence of Richard F. Loper, on 
Pennsylvania Avenue ; the Snellenberg Cottage on States- Avenue, and 
a number of pretty homes on St. Charles Place. Some of the finest 
residences in Atlantic City are dignified by no other name than cottage 
— a word which has undergone great changes since its introduction 
into our language. It was originally used to convey the idea of some- 
thing far less stylish than the buildings which are "now known by that 
name. The old dictionary meaning of it is, "a small habitation for 
poor persons." The "habitations" which beautify the avenues of 
Atlantic City are not by any means small ones, nor are thev generally, 
as far as heard from, inhabited by poor people. Most of them are 
exceedingly tasteful, and many are large enough to be called mansions 
rather than cottages. Quite a number are in "Queen Anne" style, what- 
ever that is. A few are positively hideous, but the majority are exhibits 
of elegant and sensible architecture. 

Academy of the Sacred Heart. — This institution was first opened 
in a cottage on Connecticut Avenue in May, 1883, but in November 
following it wes removed to its present location on Park Place, directlv 
opposite the Disston villa. The school is conducted by the ladies of 
the Sacred Heart, and is an institution of which Atlantic City may well 
feel proud. The grounds around the villa extend to the beach, and 
every facility is afforded the pupils for sea-bathing and healthful 
exercise in "the open air. The building is heated with steam, and is 
furnished with all the modern improvements. Both boarding and day 
pupils are received, and the terms may be had on application to the 
Superior. These ladies devote themselves, also, to the education of 
a large number of children in their parochial school on Ohio Avenue. 

Mercer Memorial Home. — This institution, the corporate name 
of which is Seaside House for Invalid Women, was organized in 1878. 
Its object is to provide at the seashore a place where invalid women, 
of moderate means, can spend a few weeks and have not only the 
comforts of a home, but also good nursing and the care of a phvsician, 
at a price which they are able to pay, but much below the actual 
cost. It differs from other seaside institutions for women in that it is 
intended for invalids only, and in this respect it meets a want which 
has often been felt by those who come in contact with the masses of 
working-women in our large cities. 

In 1884 the building at the corner of Ohio and Pacific Avenues was 
erected, largely through the munificence of the late Mrs. J. C. Mercer, of 
Philadelphia, who gave forty thousand dollars for the purpose. An 
addition to the east wing of the building, finished in 1S94, increased 
its capacity about one-third. This building is one of the finest of its 
size in Atlantic City, and is provided with every convenience for the 
care of sick women. Its sanitary arrangements are as near perfect as 
they can be made. Besides sitting-rooms, bath-rooms, parlors, writing- 
room, dining-room, offices, linen-rooms, trunk-rooms, servants' rooms, 
and the like, there are about eighty bed-rooms, capable of accommo- 
dating over one hundred patients. These are neatly furnished, and 
each patient has a comfortable spring-bed, with hair mattress. There 
are a number of bed-rooms on the first floor, and an easy, inclined 



96 Hand-Book of Atlantic City. 

plane runs from this floor to the ground, so that those unable to walk 
can be wheeled from their bed-rooms to the beach. 

Children's Seashore House.— This institution (the first of its 
kind in the United States) was opened in a small cottage in 1872. In 
July, 1S83, it was re-opened in its present location, at the sea-end of 
Ohio Avenue, occupying what is now the main building. Fourteen 
smaller buildings have since been erected within the grounds by visitors 
at the different hotels, each bearing the name of the house by which 
it was erected. They consist of one room each, furnished with immac- 
ulate linen, cleanliness being the cardinal feature of the institution. 
There are now accommodations for over one hundred children and 
about thirty mothers. The object of the corporation is to maintain at 
the seashore an institution in which children of the poorer classes, 
suffering from non-contagious diseases, or from debility, incident to the 
hot weather and a crowded city, may have good nursing and medical 
care, without regard to creed, color or nationality. Children over 
three years of age are cared for by competent nurses in the large, airy 
wards of the main building ; and those too young to be separated from 
their mothers are assigned to the little cottages which have been erected 
for the mothers almost upon the beach. One of them is assigned to 
each mother with a sick infant. She may also have one other child 
with her, and have for herself and children the exclusive use of the 
cottage, taking care of it and her children, but having her meals pro- 
vided for her in the main building. A separate building, located 
immediately on the beach, is used for very serious cases needing closer 
attention and greater quiet than can be had otherwise. 

The children are under the care of a resident physician, a corps of 
nurses and a matron, and the total charge, including board, washing, 
medical attendance, bathing, and occasionally driving or sailing, is not 
over three dollars per week. A number— limited by the means at the 
command of the managers — are received without charge. Applications 
for admission are made to an examining physician, who furnishes 
railroad tickets, provided at a reduced rate. The house is open to 
visitors Tuesday and Friday mornings from half-past nine to half-past 
ten o'clock, and every afternoon from three to five o'clock. 

Somers' Point.— Sorners' Point, one of the oldest ports of entry 
in the United States, is a favorite resort for sportsmen. It is reached 
by steamers from Longport, but the popular way is by' railroad, across 
the meadows to Pleasantville, and thence to Somers' Point. The ride 
in pleasant weather is in open cars across the wide expanse of salt 
meadows and through a fertile farm'ng country to the bay, on which 
Somers' Point is located. In its vic.nity, many years ago, was the 
summer encampment of the Algonquin Indians, who enjoyed the boun- 
tiful supply of oysters and game. The charge is 25 cents for the round 
trip. 

The Klephant. — This colossal wooden animal is situated at South 
Atlantic City, and is easily reached by either electric car or drive along 
the beach front. It was erected in 1SS1 at a cost of $12,000. 

Fishing- and Crabbing-. — The fishing and crabbing grounds around 
Atlantic City are excellent. Goodies are caught in large numbers off 
the pier, while further out at sea, weak-fish, blue-fish, sea-bass, sheeps- 
head, etc., are numerous. Yachts at the Inlet are provided with tackle 
for the use of passengers, and any of them can be engaged By the day or 
half-day. No fixed schedule of rates is arranged, the price depending 
entirely upon the time the party is out. 



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The Thoroughfare is the best ground for crabbing, and boats for this 
can be hired at the drawbridge, or at the foot of California avenue, both 
points being accessible by 'busses. Ladies take much to this sport, the 
sole outfit required being an old costume, a large sun hat, a net and bait. 
These latter can be secured at the boat-houses. 

On the west bank of the Thoroughfare there is nothing but salt marsh, 
which extends inland for several miles. Here the sportsman has his 
paradise. This marsh is well supplied with game from the middle of July 
until the close of winter. The summer season brings the curlew, martin, 
willet, yellow legs, plover, tell tales and other variety of snipe, as well 
as other birds. The marsh hen season opens the latter part of August. 
Then the small boats are in demand, and with a muscular native as a 
pusher the light skiff is sent close to the long grass which lines the small 
creeks tributary to the Thoroughfare, these being the feeding grounds of 
the "mud hens." During the winter the meadows offer a vantage 
ground for duck shooting, and large numbers of these are brought home 
as trophies of the day's sport. 

Beach and Other Drives. — Some of the drives of Atlantic City 
are as follows: Beach drive, at low tide, ten miles; to Longport or Great 
Egg Harbor Inlet, eight miles ; the Elephant, or South Atlantic City, 
five miles ; Absecon Inlet and Lighthouse, two miles ; Pacific Avenue 
drive, three miles to Chelsea. It is intended soon to extend this last 
drive to Longport, thus making its entire length ten miles. Another 
pleasant drive is to the Inlet on an excellent macadamized road. 

Still another ride is across the meadows to Pleasantville, and thence 
along the shore road to Somers' Point, Absecon and other pretty towns 
in the vicinity of Atlantic City. The road across the meadows is of cor- 
duroy construction and is kept in first-class condition. 

Inlet Base Ball Park. — This Park is owned by the Pennsylvania 
Railroad, and is used during the summer season. The grand stand 
seats 1000 people. The Park is reached either by electric railroad or 
carriage. 

Yachting.— The boats at the Inlet are principally of the sloop and 
cat variety, and unless especially chartered, go for runs out to sea when- 
ever a sufficient sized party is made up. On days when the sea is rough 
the trip is confined to the waters inside the bar. The boats are usually 
out an hour, and charge a uniform price of twenty-five cents per person. 
Boats can be chartered at any time for longer periods, arrangements being 
made with the captains. 

Telegraph Offices.— The two great rival companies, the Western 
Union and the Postal, have main and branch offices in Atlantic City. 
They are also in direct connection with the cable lines. The main office 
of the Western Union is at the corner of Atlantic and New York Avenues. 
The Postal main office is on Atlantic Avenue, between North and South 
Carolina Avenues. Both companies maintain the district messenger 
service, and call boxes are to be found in every section of the city. The 
charge for messenger service is ten cents, but for outlying districts the 
charge is proportionately greater. The service is one of the best and 
most prompt in the State. The offices, during all months of the year, 
are opened from six A. M. until midnight, excepting Jul}' and August, 
when the main offices receive and send business until one A. M. 

Trolley I/ines.— The trolley line on Atlantic Avenue has its terminal 
at the Inlet. The trolley cars travel Atlantic Avenue both ways, running 
southward to the Sea View Excursion House, a point where all the 



98 IlanJ-F City. 

special and regular excursion trains land passengers. From the Inlet to 
the Excursion House the distance is three and one-half miles, fare rive 
cents. Cars run during the summer season every two minutes, and 
during the other months every live minutes. 

[/Mlgport, located at the opposite extremity of the island, is connected 

with Atlantic City by a regular schedule of railroad trains, operated by 

electricity, and also by open trolley cars on Atlantic Avenue. Regular 

re run from the Inlet, during the summer, to Longport without 

change. The fare is ten cents each way. The ride is a popular one with 

On the opposite shore of the Inlet is Brigautiue Beach. It is reached 
by yachts and by .. steamers operated by the Brigautiue Transit 

Company. The road follows the contour of the beach to Little Egg 
Harbor Inlet, a di ' en miles. The cars are double-decked and 

run swiftly. The road passes the treacherous Bi - . upon 

which hundreds . ..." all kinds have been wrecked, accompa- 

nied I - of life. The charge for the round trip is twenty-five 

Auld Lang Syne. — The present site of Atlantic City, many years 

ie than a wasl ouds, barren hills 

and wooded hollows, dense a and holly, and im- 

. bayberry bushes. Jean Le Barre, a 

Frenchman, who visited this country after the Revolution, published an 

a which he spoke of the exceptional dry:-. . -- 

i i secori Beach, having visited this island in Septem- 

. lining andfisning. He added that in 

all his travels (and he was a gi t he had only found one other 

-'and in the matter 
- it was a dreary place in 
oiliarwith the islai - tor, before it 

was touched by the iron wand of that modern magician, the railroad, 

1 than the deserts of Arabia." On 

the beach nothing interrupted the monotonous sough of the sea but the 

cry of the curlew, or the shrill scream of 

the gull. On the mead< - - aimer evening, when babbling 

day was touched by the hem of night's garment, there was a ; 

of peaceful solitude. The sun. resting upon the hoi 

sy rays, the surface of the creeks and bays ; and 
■. oar by a mooring boatman, or the whistling of a boy 
e the stillness and solitude of 
the SOJ 

Ne\ se days the island was occasionally 

.-:ie of mirth - nntry folk — those living i 

mainland — had what were known as "'each parties." They came in 
boats, and. having rounded R D the Inlet, they hoisted their 

.-.nt Judith Adams. She wast':. 
id, and by that sign they conquered her larder. When Aunt 
Judith saw the flag she busied herself preparing dinner for the party. 

These beach parties were the " events of the season " in those days. 
Down ... at low tide. th« the soul-stirring s 

of " Fischer's Hornpipe." discoursed by a single fiddle. There was none 
of your mincing and suiirki*.'._ nine fun and frolic — a regular 

jump-up-and-down, cross-over-jonj I fgure-in-Jeinirna terpsi- 

ig ! A: high tide they all bathed. The hilarity of the occa- 
:.cu the young men of the party eairied the blushing 



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and screaming maidens to the top of the steep sand-hills, and, tying their 
feet together, rolled them down to the water's edge. 

Where shall we find, in the refinement of the present age, a sufficient 
compensation for the loss of this rude form of jollity? They had no 
bath-houses in those days, both sexes going among the sand hills to dis- 
robe. In time this came to be regarded as inconvenient and embarrass- 
ing ; wherefore, some liberal spirits engaged Uncle Ryan Adams to build 
them a bath-house. When they came to the beach the next time the)' 
started down to take a dip in the surf, and, when nearly there, it occurred 
to one of the party that they had forgotten the key to the bath-house, 
and, forthwith, a messenger was sent back to fetch the kev. fie returned 
in a few minutes, saying there was no lock on the door. Reaching the 
spot indicated by Uncle Ryan, the party found, to their dismay, that the 
new " building " was a frail structure made entirely of brush, with the 
blue canopy of heaven for a roof, but it answered their purpose, and 
that style of bath-house remained in vogue until after the birth of 
Atlantic City, when Joshua Note converted an old wreck into the first 
frame bath-house, near the foot of Massachusetts Avenue. Abreast of 
this primitive bath-house was the wreck of the "Yanolinda," and at 
various points along the beach there were thirteen other wrecks. 

Glorious, indeed, to the country folk, at least, were those days of 
"Auld Lang Syne!" And the city wight, no less than the country 
swain, was not averse to that form of summer outing. He loved the city 
and its busy hum ; he loved the excitement of the crowd at home, the 
absence of those curious eyes and idle tongues characteristic of rustic 
life; but he loved the seashore, too, and there was no scene over which 
his eyes roved with greater pleasure than the face of a summer landscape 
by the sea. Hither he came to fish, to hunt, to bathe. 1 1 is joy of youth- 
ful sports, in summer time, was to be borne on the breast of the ocean ; 
from a boy he wantoned with her breakers, and he became, as it were, a 
i In id of the sea. To him the roar of the ocean, no less than the voice of 
the brook or the language of the winds and woods, was not a poetic 
fiction. Being a student of Nature, as well as a lover of youthful sports, 
lie read a well-taught lesson in the opening bud of spring; an eloquent 
homily in the fall of the autumnal leaf. The song of a bird, the cry of 
a passing curlew, represented the glad but transitory days of youth ; the 
hollow tree or the hooting owl, the decay and imbecility of old age. 

In the beautiful language of Horace Smith, an English poet — 

Voin flowers, an living preachers, 

cup a pulpit, each leaf a 1 ool 
Supplying to ray fancy numerous teachers 
From loneliest nook. 

'Neath cloistered boughs each floral bell that swingeth, 

And toil-, ii -. pi I in .n 1 hi pa 5sing 

Makes Sal. hath in tin- fields, and ever ringeth 

A call to prayer. 

Not to th<- domes where crumbling arch and column 

Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, 
Bui t" that fane, most catholic and solemn, 

which Cod hath planned. 

To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, 
Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply — 
r t he wind- ami wavi s, its o] gan thunder, 

11 dome the sky. 

There, amid solitude and shade. 1 wandi r 

Through the green aisles, ami, stretched upon the sod ; 
Awi d by the silence, reverently ponder 
The ways of Cod. 




Oceai\ gpray. 



OME of our Atlantic City visitors have never 
seen a Sea Horse. It is a small marine 
animal or fish, having a prehensile tail 
'and a head that terminates in a long 
snout. The whole configuration of the 
fore part of the body bears a striking resem- 
blance to a horse's head ; hence the name by 
which it is known. It abounds in some 
parts of the Atlantic Ocean, and is sometimes 
found in the vicinity of Atlantic City. 

The person who swallows a single mouth- 
ful of sea water takes into his stomach chlor- 
ide and sulphate of sodium, magnesium, 
potassium, calcium, silica, boric acid, bro- 
mine, iodine, fluorine, oxides of nickel, 
cobalt, manganese, aluminum, zinc, silver, lead, copper, barium, stron- 
tium, arsenic, gold, lithium, rubidium and caesium. But all these 
subsidiary components are so infinitessimal that one may swallow a pint 
of sea water and not realize the presence of arsenic, nickel, cobalt, 
aluminum, zinc, lead, copper, silver and gold in the liquid. The total of 
all these so-called "salts" in sea water, on an average, is about 3^3 per 
cent., thus leaving 96 }i per cent, of pure water. 

A man six feet high, standing at the edge of the ocean, can see three 
miles seaward. That is, his horizon is three miles distant, and beyond 
that line a passing vessel can only be seen in part. The horizon is 
extended according to one's height above the sea level. The horizon of 
a sailor at the mast-head is therefore much greater than on the deck of 
the vessel. 

At the distance of one mile from the shore the curvature of the sea is 
about eight inches ; at three miles it is six feet ; and at five miles it is 
about sixteen feet. Therefore, a person six feet high, standing on the 
boardwalk or at any point ten feet above the sea level, will have a 
horizon extending five miles seaward. 

When the sun is three hours high in Atlantic City it is sunrise in San 
Francisco. At seven o'clock in the morning in Atlantic City it is noon 
in London. 

The bed of the ocean, although diversified by plateaus and plains, is 
more nearly level than the surface of the land. 

The greatest depth in which a ship has been anchored is 2000 fathoms 
(considerably more than two miles). This was accomplished by the 
United States vessel Blake when employed on the work of charting the 
various ocean currents. 

The average depth of the Atlantic Ocean is about 16,000 feet, or a 
little more than three miles. The deepest sounding is south-east of 



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Newfoundland, where the depth is more than five miles. It is believed, 
however, that there are ocean depths, as yet unfathomed, of about eight 
miles. 

The color of the ocean varies. Shallow waters are green, while water 
more than 60 fathoms, or 360 feet deep, is blue. 

Waves of the sea are the alternate rising and falling of the water. 
The wave itself moves forward, but the water does not. 

The top of a wave, in shallow water or during a gale, moves faster 
than the lower part. This causes it to break into surf or foam. 

The waves of the Atlantic are ordinarily about ten feet high from 
crest to trough, and during severe storms they are seldom more than fifty 
feet in height. 

Tides are caused by the attractive forces of the sun and moon. 
When the sun and moon exert their attraction in the same direction, 
or on the same line, the tides rise a little higher and fall lower than 
usual. These are called spring tides. But when the tide forces are at 
right angles, the water neither rises so high nor falls so low. These are 
called neap tides. 

The Gulf Stream is the principal current of the Atlantic Ocean. It 
is deflected from the equatorial current in the Caribbean Sea, and its 
greatest velocity is where it passes through' the Florida Strait into the 
Atlantic Ocean. Here its velocity is five miles an hour. In the latitude 
of Atlantic City this current is nearer the coast line than at any other point 
north of Cape Hatteras, varying from forty-five miles in winter to sixty 
miles in summer. This near approach of the Gulf Stream to the Atlantic 
City beach explains the exceptional mildness of the climate in winter 
time. 

Sea breezes are caused by the action of the sun upon the air above 
the land. During the day time the air above the land, receiving more 
heat than the air above the water, rises, and the cooler air above the sea 
rushes in to take its place, thus producing the sea breeze. 

The whole of the land on the globe above water level, if shoveled 
into the Pacific Ocean, would fill only one-seventh of it. 

The Atlantic, by far the best sounded ocean, has an area of 31.000,000 
square miles. 

The Indian Ocean, with an area of 25,000,000 square miles, has 
mean depth of a little over 2000 fathoms. 




yftlailtjic City jiotels. 



■ Shall I not take mine ease 



ine mill"— Sir John Falstaff. (Shakspeake.) 



What sayest thou, spirit of the departed Falstaff? Dost thou desire ease in thine 
inn ? Then seest thou that the inn be chosen with care, that thy host be one worthy 
ol thy company, and above all that the inn be situate in Atlantic City. 

But how can I know the whereabout of this place thou callest Atlantic City, the 
direction thereto, the number cf inns therein, and which be goodly taverns that rob 
me not of mine exchequer? 

All this and much more store of information is vouchsafed unto thee, my lord. 

Hut suppose that I too be a belated traveler, who spurs apace to gain the timely 
inn— how shall I find my place of abode, seeing that the west doth not yet glimmer 
with some streaks of day and I be a stranger in a strange land? 

List! Let my worthy and adipose knight send for that book vclept Hestou's 
Hand Book ol Atlantic City, whereof there be many thousands print, and see the fair 
pictures and much story about the town, and a catalogue of all the inns and boarding 
places, wherein thou wilt find thy wannest welcome— likewise where thy stomach is 
most carefully honored and thy couch like unto a bed of roses. 

Wherefore shall I know, -Sir Oracle, how many pieces of gold to place in mine 
pouch, that I may have the whetewithal to pay the inn-keeper? 

Be not uneasy about that. Your jocund highness will find in the Hand Book, as I 
have already said, a catalogue of all the inns, the dole which each host doth demand 
cf the pilgrim and the number of lodgings at his disposal. And thou shalt read in 
i'ii- book of electroliers, elevators, telephones, electric lights, electric cars, locomo- 
tives, railroads, steamboats, phonographs, merry-go rounds, roundabouts, toboggans 
and divers other strange devices of 'which thou hast never before heard. 

A vaunt there, wizard, with thy telephonesand electric cars, thy elevators, railroads 
and, phonographs! Thou speakest in an unknown tongue. Yet will I send for this 
ii the many taverns in tin town of Atlantic City; howbeit, this be a place 
whereof I never before heard. Verily, I must view the manners of this strange 
town, peruse its traders, gaze upon its buildings, and take mine ease in mine inn. 
Knowest thou the cost of the book of which thou speakest so highlv ? 

Yes, my dear Falstaff. .Send a bag of forty and eight farthings to the pub- 
lisher, or to any bookseller in the provinces of America ; so shalt thou receive it by 
the earliest post. 








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City, and while 
j pg we have much pride and 
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summer resort lor invalids and plea Ul\ sure-seekers that the place is 
most widely known ; as a fashion y\&, able place of refuge from the 
piercing cold of winter, as well as a cool retreat from the sweltering heat 
of summer. This result is due, first, to the attractions and benefits of 
the climate, which is warmer than that of Charleston in winter, and 
cooler than that of Boston in summer; and, secondly, to the capacity, 
elegance and extent of her hotels. In fact, the hotels and boarding- 
houses of Atlantic City are a significant feature of its desirable qualities. 
A number of these houses take rank with the first-class hotels of the 
country. Many of them are open throughout the year, and are thor- 
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THE man, of mortals happiest he, whose quiet 
;,, mind from vain desires is free. Thus 
spake the poet, but the average citizen of 
Atlantic City is happiest when his mind 
is busy with desires to please the count- 
"ess thousands who come here, at every 
season of the year, from every section of 
the country, in quest of every form of 
amusement. Atlantic Avenue, the 
principal street, is lined with stores, 
offices, and other places of busi- 
ness, and a lively traffic is carried 
on throughout the year, especially 
from the first of February to the 
last of October. The markets are 
supplied with all the necessities 
and luxuries of life. 
In the matter of protection against 
fire Atlantic City is particularly fa- 
vored — in fact, the place has the best 
volunteer fire department in the State. 
There are five efficient fire companies, 
all of them well equipped. The ap- 
paratus consists of engines, hose car- 
riages, hose carts, and hook and 
ladder trucks. The members are 
well drilled and thoroughly ac- 
v - ,;| , , ""^ . ! iffjm ,M -IjM^* '',t 'A' quainted with their duties at a 
*'" ' ' ■ ,; : , '..i'. 1 / .'■?,, ,A .'i^i]^^. fire. Although a volunteer de- 

''' : -' partment, competent men are in 

the employ of the several companies. The chief and his assistants 
make frequent inspections of the several companies, and their apparatus 
is in thorough order and ready for prompt service. To render the fire 
service more efficient there is an inexhaustible supply of water, with 
sufficient force to throw a plug stream over any building in the city. 

A visit to Atlantic City would be incomplete without a visit to the 
great pier of Young & McShea, whose surface reaches far out over the 
ocean, and upon which one may walk and watch the waves as they roll 
in, and perchance " lay hold upon the mane of the sea." As the board- 
walk is the promenade, the centre of life and interest, over which 
everybody strolls in search of exercise or amusement, so is this pier a 
place of interest which every one should visit, if only for a few breaths 
of the purest and freshest of ocean air. This pier is nearly 2000 feet 
in length, and has a dancing pavilion 80 by 150 feet. Special events 
attract the attention of the patrons every week. The pavilion may also 
be used for conventions and public meetings of all kinds. There is a 
steamboat landing and good fishing on the outer deck. 

Among those who may be considered the most enterprising men of 
business in Atlantic City, a number are deserving of special mention : 




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For the information of visitors the Publisher of the Hand Book appends a list 
of Physicians in Atlantic City. 



BA1LY, A. W., 

1809 Pacific Avenue. 

BALLIET, L. D., 

I OOI Atlantic Avenue. 

BENNETT, FRANCIS W., 

20 South Illinois Avenue. 

BULL, W. H. H., 

Corner Pacific and Connecticut Avenues. 

CHEW, E. C, 

1414 Atlantic Avenue. 

CROSBY, GEORGE W., 

716 Atlantic Avenue. 

CORSON, W. A., 

716 Atlantic Avenue. 

CUSKADEN, A. D., 

2000 Atlantic Avenue. 

DARNALL, WILLIAM E., 

17 19 Pacific Avenue. 

DOWNS, I. M., 

Corner Atlantic and Virginia Avenues. 

EDWARDS, JOSEPH F., 

Pacific and Illinois Avenues. 

FLEMING, JOHN R., 

1903 Pacific Avenue. 



JOY, J. ADDISON, 

35 South Illinois Avenue. 

MILLER, MARY. 

159 South Virginia Avenue. 

MUNSON, M. L., 

1503 Pacific Avenue. 

PENNINGTON, B. C, 

121 2 Pacific Avenue. 

POLLARD, W. M., 

25 South Carolina Avenue. 

POWELL, W. M., 

16 South Indiana Avenue. 

REED, BOARDMAN, 

Corner Pacific and North Carolina Avenues. 

REILEY, EDWARD A., 

20 South Tennessee Avenue. 

REYNOLDS, WALTER, 

1302 Pacific Avenue. 

SOOY, WALTER C, 

1913 Pacific Avenue. 

SOUDER, L. R., 

1910 Pacific Avenue. 

THOMPSON, J. P.., 

1922 Pacific Avenue. 

YOUNQMAN, M. D., 

1618 Pacific Avenue. 



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DRUG STORE 



Cor. Michigan and 

Atlantic Avenues. 




The Largest House Furnishing Establishment in West Jersey. 

Bell & ( orman, 

"^^^^""^ \^ I Successors to BELL & SCOTT, 

tylmtie and Tenne^ee Ave?. ^K^gS,. 

The following are some of the Hotels and Boarding Houses in Atlantic 
City furnished by this House: 



Ardmore 


Clarendon 


Imperial 


Paoli 


Aldine 


Chelsea 


Idaho 


Revere 


Atglen 


Dennis 


Kenderton 


Raymond 


Allen 


Del Coronado 


Kuehnle 


Roman 


Argyle 


Delaware County 


Koopman 


Rossmore 


Albemarle 


De Mar 


Lehman 


Rudolph 


Amole 


Edison 


Leeds 


Shelburne 


Acquarille 


Elberon 


Leedom 


Seaside 


Boscobel 


Elkton 


Littlepage 


Schaufler's 


Berkshire 


Enderby 


Lelande 


Senate 


Brunswick 


Fredonia 


Minerd 


Stickney 


Bew 


Glenville 


Majestic 


Springhaven 


Bryn Mawr 


Grand Union 


Melos 


St. Charles 


Berkeley 


Qalen Hall 


Malatesta 


Traymore 


Bluffland 


Haddon Hall 


New York 


Wellington 


Chalfonte 


Hoffman 


Ponce de Leon 


Whittier 


Central 


Heckler 


Porter 


Wingfield 


Clifton 


Holmes 


Pembroke 


Waldorf 


Chester Inn 


Islesworth 


Pennhurst 


Warrick 



The Citizens 

Ice * Gold ptitfage Go. 

now under new management, 
solicit your trade. 

\cf* ma( ^ e fr° m doubly distilled and 
1**^ filtered Artesian well water. 
Recognized as the best and pur- 
est. Costs no more than the or- 
dinary kind. 

Cf\a\ of one kind — the best. All 
^"'*-' c ** sizes at lowest prices. 

PROMPT SERVICE. FULL WEIGHT. 

TELEPHONE 253, 

or a Postal and we'll call. 

The Citizens 

Ice Cold Storage Co., 

Baltic and Connecticut Aves. 

Prest and Gen'l Mgr. Peter Ballingall. 
Vice-Pres't, Samuel E. Perry. 
Treas., Albert Beyer. 



WE SELL THE 

FppH t ' iat ma ^ es Worses happy, 
keeps them healthy and 
saves money for their owners 



Floilf* ma de for those who appre- 
ciate a superior article ; 
try a barrel and we'll sell 
you the next one also. 



H-tlaim-tic MTY 

FLOUR and FEED CO. 

Baltic and Connecticut Avenues, 
ATLANTIC CITY. 



TELEPHONE No. 93. 



THOMPSON IRVIN'S 
| eading llry C|oods House, 

^ATLANTIC CITY, 

1619 and 1621 ATLANTIC AVE., 

Extends a cordial invitation to ait visiting Jfotantic City 

to call and examine the targe and U>ett- 

assorted stoci{ of 

Dry Goods, Notions, Trimmings, Etc. 

AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICES. 



ROYAIi BliUE LIKE ■-■■ 

NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE AND 
WASHINGTON VIA 

BALTIMORE*, OHIO RAILROAD 

Fastest, Finest and Safest Trains in the World. 

The entire equipment ii brand-new. and consists of the finest Baggage Cars, Coaches, Parlor, 

Sleeping and Dining Cars ever built by the Pullman Company. The trains are 

vestibuled from end to end and protected by Pullman's improved 

A/NTI-TELESCOPI/NG DEVICE. 

All the cars in all the trains are heated by steam and lighted by Pintsch Gas. 



Reading Railroad 
System. 



SWIFT, 
SAFE AINJD SURERB 

Finest Track in the World. 



TRAINS RUNNING 
ON THE 

PHILADELPHIA STATION, READING TERMINAL, 

Market and Twelfth Streets. 
NEW YORK STATION, LIBERTY STREET FERRY, 

Central Railroad of New Jersey. 



ATMJlTiC GITY RAIIiROflD 

"THE ROYAL ROUTE TO THE SEA." 

A Complete Service of the Famed Fast Flyers Maintained Throughout the Year. 

Luxurious Coaches and Palatial Pullman Parlor Cars, heated by Steam 

and Illuminated with the Pintsch Light. 

PHILADELPHIA STATIONS: ""VTsZ?^,. 

The Reading Railroad is also the old-established and direct route to all points in interior 
Pennsylvania. Through Tickets and Baggage Checks obtainable everywhere 

I. A. SWEIGARD, C.G.HANCOCK, 

General Superintendent. General Passenger Agent. 



J>trawbridge & y^othier, 




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any 



hings 



advertised each day in our columns in the Philadelphia and 
Atlantic Qty Daily Papers, may be wanted by customers who 
cannot conveniently visit the store. We beg to remind these 
customers of our thoroughly systematized Mail Order Depart- 
ment. The greatest promptness is observed in executing all 
orders ; and it must be remembered that should the goods not 
be satisfactory, they will be exchanged or the money refunded 
— whichever the buyer desires. 



Especially worthy of attention at all times are our superb assortments of 

SILKS, DRESS GOODS, LINENS, COATS, CAPES, 
COSTUMES, UNDERWEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY, 
LACES, RIBBONS, WHITE GOODS, EMBROID- 
ERIES, COTTON GOODS, CARPETS, UPHOL- 
STERY, MILLINERY, RUGS, WOMEN'S AND 
CHILDREN'S SHOES, ETC 

Prices are invariably adjusted in the interest 
of our customers. 

Strawbridge & Clothier, 

PHILADELPHIA. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad 

Is the only all rail line connecting ATLANTIC CITY with 
all the world by the 

DELAWARE RIVER BRIDGE ROUTE. 

From Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, fast express trains run to Atlantic City, connect- 
ing with all the through trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad's vast system coming into Phila- 
delphia, from South, Southwest, West and Northwest. Under the comprehensive arrangement 
of through cars used by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it is possible for a visitor destined to 
Atlantic City to travel from any one of the large cities, included in the territory above mentioned, 
with only one change of cars, and without transfer through Philadelphia. 

From New England and the North but one change is necessary, and that in New York, 
as the 

NEW YORK AND ATLANTIC CITY FAST EXPRESS 

HAS NOW BECOME AN ESTABLISHED INSTITUTION. 

This train leaves New York in the early afternoon every week-day during the year, and 
runs through to Atlantic City without change, arriving there in ample time for supper or late 
dinner. 

The local service of fast express trains between Market Street Ferry, Philadelphia, and 
Atlantic City is unsurpassed. 

The Pennsylvania Railroad has been closely identified with the material development of 
this great seaside resort, to which end nothing has contributed more than the matchless railroad 
facilities always provided by this Company. 

Any ticket agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad or the connections can give information as 
to routes and rates or, should more detailed knowledge be desired, address 

S. M. PREVOST, J. K. WOOD, GEO. W. BOYD, 

Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agt. Ass't Gen'l Pass. Agt. 

flayers' Union fllarket, 

1513 ATLANTIC AVENUE, 

The leading house for the sale of all kinds of meats and country produce. 
CHICAGO TENDERLOINS A SPECIALTY. 

Fresh, and Salt Meats, etc. Truck fresh from farms daily. 

The only Slaughtering Establishment on the Island. 

KESSI_ER'S ATLANTIC MARKET, 

No. 1913 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 

A good supply of all kinds of Meats, Provisions, and Vegetables constantly on hand. Goods 
delivered free of charge. 

Ct)Ct> FI mrnr^'TTHi ^^ OLD RELIABLE MARKET, 

pf<ED. A. JVIAHTlflc^*— 1121 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 

Dealer in Meats, Game, Poultry, Butter, Eggs, Fruits and Vegetables. 

Telephone No. 7. 



THOMAS MORGAN, 

FOREIGN $ DOMESTIC FRUITS 

916 ATLANTIC AVE. 

Telephone No. 255. 



U. F». WRIGHT, 
Funeral Director, 

Graduate of the U S. College of Embalming. 

No. 101 1 Atlantic Avenue. 

Telephone No. 222. 



W. R. LEWIS, 
BUTTER, EGGS and POULTRY 

91 1 and 91 3 Atlantic Ave. 



M. I\J. BOLTE, 

Practical Watchmaker and Jeweler. 

IN HIS NEW BRICK STORE, 

912 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 

velry and diamonds, 
watches a Specialt 



Established 1864. 



BACHARACH & SONS, 

lien's Outfitters, 

1420 and 1422 Atlantic Ave. and 
Atlantic and Pennsylvania Aves. 



STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING- 
ESTIMATES FURNISHED. 

S. J. GILTINAN, 
Practical Plumber ^ Gas Fitter 

622 Atlantic Avenue. 
GROFF FLOUR AND FEED CO., 

Cracked Coin, Oats, Feed Meal and Indian Meal 
Giound on the Premises Daily. 

REAR 1119 ATLANTIC AVENUE, 

Telephone 284. Under Bartlett Hall. 

All Flour CJuaraiueed. 

A Specialty Made ..f Re-Cleaued Oats 

CHANNELL BROS. 

Dealers in High Grade Groceries 

1202 Atlantic Avenue. 

specialties : Telephone 223. 

P. E Sharpless and Darlington Butter. 
Mocha and Java Coffees Fine Teas. 

M. GIORGETTI, 

WHOLESALE AND RHTAIL DEALER IN 

Foreign and Domestic Fruits, 

No. 1534 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 



D. C. JOHNSON & CO. 

BICYCLES forsa to a h?re 



No. 1515 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 

FRED. MYERS, 
Columbian Bakery, 

1511 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 
E. A. McGUIRE, 

SHIP CHANDLERY, FISHING TACKLE AND 

SPORTING GOODS, 

HARDWARE, HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS, 

TOOLS AND CUTLERY, 

807 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 

NASSANO'S 

CHOICE 

Fruits, Nuts # Confectionery 
1208 Atlantic Avenue. 

FITTOATS 
CUatches and Jecuelpy, 

1709 Atlantic Avenue. 

Repairing a Specialty. 

SAMUEL ROTHHOLZ, 
GOLDEN EAGLE OUTFITTER, 

1210 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 



ATLANTIC CYCLE CO. 

1735 Atlantic Avenue. 

We have Bicycles from $10 to $125. 

Our repair shop is the best equipped in South 
Jersey. Work guaranteed. 

GEORGE H. PERKINS, 

Notary Public, 

Justice of the Peace, 

ROOM 32. LAW BUILDING. 

A. HIRSCH, 

Clothier and Gents' Furnisher, 

A Full Line of Ladies and Gents' Shoes. 

1603-05 Atlantic Avenue. 



PLUMBING. TIN ROOFING. DRAINAGE. 

V. B. GIFFIM 3c SO/N, 

DEALERS IS 

^BUILDEHS' SUPPLIES, HTVR'DWA'RE^ 

Tools and Cutlery, 

Heaters, Brick Set Wrought-Iron and Cast-Iron Ranges. Portable Ranges. 
1518 ATLANTIC AVENUE, 

Telephone No. 54. Below New York Avenue. 



I. G. Adairjs & Go., 



I. <;. Adams. 
C. J. Adams. 



"Real Estate and Insurance. 

Money to Loan on First-Class Mortgages. 

Rooms, 2, 4, 6 and 8 Real Estate and Law Building. 

For Sale or Rent Valuable Properties in all parts of the City. The Largest Firelnsur- 

ance Agency in the State. 

Notaries Public and Commissioners of Deeds (or New Jersey. Pennsylvania 

and New York. 

WILSON SENSEM7WN, 

Commissioner of Deeds for New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 

Real Estate and Insurance, Notary Public, 

Office, 1026 Atlantic Avenue, Above Pennsylvania A\ enue. 

m. a.devine. device & wootto^i, harry woo™*. 

Rooms 10 & 11, First Floor, Real Estate & Law Bldg. Counselcr-at-Law, 

Cottages and Hotels for Rent and Sale. Building Lots for Sale. Agents for Chelsea, 

St. Charles Place, Ventnor and Longport. Re;.l Estate and Insurance. Loans 

Negotiated. General Collections. Law and Conveyancing Bureau. 

SHINN St RISliEY, 

Conveyancing. Real Estate and Insurance Agents, 

1311 Atlantic Avenue. 
C. C. SHINN,Counselor-at-Law. Telephone 274 P.O. Box 305. 

a. H- philips St co., 

Insurance and Real Estate. 
Money to Loan on Mortgage, Conveyancing. 

1315 Atlantic Avenue. 

E. M. IVIILES 8c CO., 

Real Estate. Insurance and Ocean Steamship Agency, N. E. cor. New York and Pacific Avcs. 

Pittsburg Headquarters. For Sale or Kent— Hotels, Boarding Houses and Cottages. 

Beach Fronts and Choice Building Sites for Sale on Easy Terms. Values 

Rapidly Advancing. Money to Loan on Mortgages. 

A. IV1. HESTON, Publisher, 

Union National Bank Building, 

" Heston's Handbook of Atlantic City," "Atlantic City— Queen of the Coast," " Winter 

Outings and Summer Rambles," " < Miting by the Sea," etc. Hotel Booklets, 

Pamphlets, Circulars and Stationery. 



W. Hamilton Porter. 



Samuel E. Chowley. 



PORTER & CROWLEY, 

Largest Real Estate Office in Atlantic City. 

<^ Real Estate, Insurance and Mortgages ==* 

OPPOSITE NEW CITY HALL, 

1328 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 

Telephone 200. p. o. Box 202. 

COTTAGES FOR RENT FOR THE SEASON. 

Hotels, Boarding Houses, Cottages, Building Sites, Bath Houses and Boardwalk Stands 

to Rent or Sell. Agents for Chelsea, Ventnor, South Atlantic and Longport. 

Money to Loan on Mortgage. Collections at Low Rates. 



J. H. BARTLETT, 
Real Estate, 

110 SOUTH CAROLINA AVE., 
Conveyancing, Fire and Life Insurance. 

PRICE & SMITH, 

Real Estate and Insurance, 

Commissioners of Deeds, 

Money to Loan on Mortgage. 
2008 Atlantic Avenue. 

Charles H. Rogers, 

Real Estate, 

608 Baltic Ave., near Connecticut. 

Branch, 715 Atlantic Ave. 
Cottages for Sale or Rent. 



V. C. BRUCKMANN, 
Real Estate and Insurance Broker, 

Property for Sale, Rent or Exchange, 
102! Atlantic Avenue. 

DAVID GILTINAN, 

Real Estate and Insurance, 
Mortgages Negotiated, 

Hotels and Cottages a Specialty. 
1316 Atlantic Avenue. 

SOMERS, IRELAN & CO , 
Real Estate and Insurance, 

Hotels and Cottages for Sale or Kent. 
Office, 1009 Atlantic Ave. 



flt^THOH Ii. BRIDGHAM, 



Steam and Gas Fitter, 



PLUMBER, 



Joijiiing a Specialty. 



2017 Pacific Avenue. 



J *5 f\ CT r= Hi *3 nilHJT "The" Auctioneer for Atlantic City and County. 
. h(U£>fc2(MBRU|Yl, p. O. Box 2 74 . 

Mammoth New Storage House, Office and Salesroom, 

Maryland Avenue, below Atlantic. 

Furniture and Household Goods Rented by the season. The only Storage House in Atlantic 
City. Advances made on Storages. 



Goods delivered to all parts n -o tVTtotv 
of the city. **. -D • J\lrf±\, 



Butter and Eggs, Live and 
Dressed Poultry. 



Fresh City Dres-sed Beef, Salt Meats, 
Provisions, etc. 



DEALER IN HIGH GRADE MEATS, 

602-4 ARCTIC AVENUE. 



F. A. CHAPMAN, 



Electrical Contractor, 



1009 Atlantic Avenue. 



Electrical work of every description put in new, or carefully repaired. 
Telephone 183. 



OLIVER H. GUTTRIDGE, 



Wall Papers, Decorations, 
Painters' Supplies, Window Shades. 
Window Glass, Oil Cloth. 



General Gontraetor. 



1003 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 



D. B. EDWARDS, 



JfLORAL 4{ALb. 



10T 

South Carolina Avenue- 
Beautiful Foliage and Bedding Plants. Fresh Cut Flowers of the finest quality received daily 
from our own Nurseries at Bridgeton, N. J. Jardinieres, Floral Decorations 
for weddings, parties, funerals, etc. Open all the year. 




CHARLES EVANS, JOSEPH A. BARSTOW, FRANCIS P. QUIGI.EY, 

President. Vice-President. Cashier. 

Atlantic (jjity National Bank 

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 

CAPITAL, $50,000. SURPLUS, $120,000. 

1881. 1896. 

DIRECTORS: 
Charles Evans, Joseph A. Barstow, John B. Champion, 

George Allen, Richard H. Turner, Elisha Roberts, 

Frederick Hemsley, Joseph H. Borton, Dr. Thos. K. Reed. 

GEORGE F. CURRIE, LEVI C. ALBERTSON, L. A. DOWN, 

President. I ice-President . Cashier. 

Second Rational Bank 

CAPITAL,, $100,000. SURPLUS, $25,000. 

DIRECTORS: 

George F. Currie, Israel G. Adams, John W. Moffly, Benjamin H. Brown, 

Louis Kuehnle, Levi C. Albertson, Samuel K. Marshall. Joseph Scull, 

Enoch B. Scull, James H. Mason, Joseph Thompson, E. V. Corson, 

Absalom Cordery. 

ALLEN B. ENDICOTT, SMITH CONOVER, JAMES M. AIRMAN, 

President. I 'ice-President. Cashier. 

(jnion Rational B an ^ 

CAPITAL, $100,000. SURPLUS, $15,000. 

DIRECTORS: 
Allen B. Endicott, Frank A. Souder, A. W. Baily, Van Buren Griffin, 

Smith Conove-, Thompson Irvin, J. Haines Lippincott. James D. Souihwick, 

C. J. Adams Thomas J. Dickerson, Julius Coty, Ceo. VV. Jackson. 

Mutual \^iic Insurance Qo. 

NEW YORK. 



THE LEADING COMPANY OF THE WORLD. 

Assets, over ....... $200,000,000 

Increase in Surplus Last Year, nearly . . . . 7,000,000 

Net gain in Insurance and Annuities in 1895, nearly . 62,000,000 

This Company offers High Grade Insurance at Minimum Rates. 

POLICIES ABSOLUTELY INCONTESTABLE. 
GEORGE B. RAYMOND, General Ac.ent, 

745 Broad St., Newark, N, J. H. S. SCULL. Agbnt, 

Atlantic City, N. J. 

Branch of 1010 Walnut St., Phila. HENRY FREESE. 

Williams $ Ulmer, lum picture TramXToVpaintiiias, 



Silversmiths and Jewelers, 

». e. bates. 926 ATLANTIC AVE. 1819 Atlantic Avenue. 



Dealer in Window and Looking Glasses, 
and Fancy Cabinet Ware. 



ALLEN B. ENDICOTT, 

COUNSELOR-AT-LAW 

UNION NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 

Rooms I, 2 and 3 

JOSEPH THOMPSON 

COUNSELOR-AT-LAW 

OFFICE 
REAL ESTATE AND LAW BUILDING 

GODFREY & GODFREY 

Carlton b.cgooLv ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW 

MASTERS IN CHANCERY and NOTARIES PUBLIC 
Rooms 13 and 15, Real Estate and Law Building 

Telephone 170 ■ P. O. Box 180. 

A. STEPHANY & SON 

ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS-AT-LAW 

Masters in Chancery Supreme Court OFFICE, REAL ESTATE AND LAW BUILDING 
Commissioners and Notaries rubhc 

JOHN S. WESTCOTT attorney-at-law 

Mensing Building, 131 i Atlantic Avenue 

A. M. HESTON 

PUBLISHER 

OFFICE 

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. 
Union National Bank Building 

Hotel Booklets, Pamphlets, Circulars and Stationery. 

The Citizens JVIataal Life Insurance Go. 

OF NEW JERSEY. 

JOHN J GARDNER, Pres. EDWIN SILVERS, Sec'y. LOUIS KUEHNLE, Treas. 

Insures every member of the family from one year of age up to seventy, in amounts from $t$ to 

$5,000, on easy monthly payments. Every policy on the endowment plan, and is 

beneficial immediately. 

JOHN P. GIBERSON, General Manager, Atlantic City. 



PHYSICIANS. 



A. W. BAILY, M. D., 



1809 Pacific Avenue. 



L. D. BALLIET, M. D., 



( 7.30 to 10 a.m. HOMCEOPATHIST. 

Hours:-', 1 to 3 p. m. , ,, • . 

(7109.30P.M. Telephone 63. loot Atlantic Avenue. 

Formerly the offices of the late Dr. Willard Wright. 



FRANCIS W. BENNETT, M. D. 



( Until 9 A. M. 
Office Hours : < 3 to 4 p. m 



< 3 to 4 p. M. 

1.7 to 8 p. m. Te 



21 South Illinois Avenue. 



lephone 266. 



Consultations, 
Surgery. 



DR. W. H. H. BULL, 

Galen Hall, 
Corner Pacific and Connecticut Avenues. 



(Until 
.7' 



Hours :< 2 to 4 P M. 
(7 to 8 P. M. 



DR. E. C. CHEW, 



Telephone 



1303 Pacific Avenue. 



Dr. G. W. Crosby. Dr. W. A. Corson. 

DRS. CROSBY and CORSON, 



Office Hours : 



2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P. M. 



716 Atlantic Avenue. 



A. D. CUSKADEN, M. D., 

Telephone i 4 i. 2000 Atlantic Avenue. 

DR. WILLIAM EDGAR DARNALL, 



2 to 3, 7 to » P. 



1719 Pacific Avenue. 



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PHYSICIANS. 



DR. I. M. DOWNS, 

Medical offices of the late Dr. Willard Wright, 

( Until 10 a. m. Cor. Atlantic and Virginia Aves. 

Office Hours : j x to 4i 7 to 9 p. 



Telephone 63. 



DR. JOSEPH F. EDWARDS : 



I Telephone 155. 



Pacific and Illinois Avenues. 



(Until 10 a. m 
Hours:-{ 1 to 3 P. M. 
^7 to 8 p. M. 



JOHN R. FLEMING, M. D., 

HOMCEOPATHIST, 

Telephone I5 8. i 9 03 Pacific Avenue. 



DR. J. ADDISON JOY, 

35 South Illinois Avenue. 



( 7 tO IO A. M 

Office Hours : < 2 to 3 p. m. 
I 7 to 8 p.m. 



MARY MILLER, M. D., 

159 South Virginia Avenue. 



(8 tO IO A. A 

Hours :< 2 to 4 p. m. 
(7 to 9 p. m. 



DR. M. L. MUNSON, 

HOMCEOPATHIST, 



Telephone 232. 



1503 Pacific Avenue. 



DR. B. C. PENNINGTON, 

1212 Pacific Avenue. 



DR. W. M. POLLARD, 

25 South Carolina Avenue. 



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PHYSICIANS. 



DR. WALTER REYNOLDS, 

IO A. M. 
5 PM. 

to 9 p. m. Telephone No. 252. 



f8 to 10 A. M. 

"Office Hours : - 3 to 5 p m. 1302 Pacific Avenue. 

(71 



DR. WALTER C. SOOY, 

tO IO A. M. 

Hours:-^2 to 4 p. m. 1913 Pacific Avenue. 

17 to 9 p.m. Telephone No. 217. 



DR. L. R. SOUDER, 

1910 Pacific Avenue. 



J. B. THOMPSON, M. D., 

Telephone 227. 1922 Pacific Avenue. 

M. D. YOUNGMAN, M. D. 

161S Pacific Avenue. 



DENTISTS. 



DR. E. M. PACKARD, 

Entrance on 

Pennsylvania Avenue. Cor. Pennsylvania and Atlantic Avenues. 



JAMES NORTH, M. D., D. D. S., 

Office and Dental Rooms. 
Between Atlantic and Pacific Avenues. 29 South Tennessee Avenue. 



DR. CHARLES C. RAITH, 

1735 Atlantic Avenue. 



DR. M. P. SHOEMAKER, 



Office, 1414 Atlantic Avenue. 

Over Post Office. 



Have You to Refurnish 

HOTEL 



or 

Vm,r COTTAGE? 



& 3fc & ■$" & 



WE HAVE A COMPLETE LINE OF 

House Furnishing Goo^. 

and can refit your HOTEL OR COTTAGE from the parlor to 
the attic. Prices and quality are everything. You are particular 
on these two points, and often go to the larger cities. This is 
where you make a mistake. Big city furniture dealers charge city 
prices, and it takes money to ride on cars. Give us your next 
order. Our motto is low prices and best quality. Being large 
buyers we command rock bottom prices. 

■#••#■ & & & 

A. J. WITH ROW, 

FURNITURE, CARPETS AND GENERAL 
H0U5E FURNISHING GOODS, 

2409 ATLANTIC AVENUE. 



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Hand-Book of Mairtie City, j 

Brief Extracts from 
Some of the Press Comments. ?ffc 



One of the, best advertisements Atlantic City ever had. — Nev) York 7ridxtte. .§ 

Much valuable information is given by Mr. Heston in this little volume. — Publit & 

Ledger ; Philadelphia. % 

A meritorious compendium of information about one of the most popular •*> 

American seaside resorts. — Baltimore American. £ 

A capital guide book, — Newark Advertiser. % 

It contains just what people wish to know, told in a bright and breezy, yet con- (J) 

rise manner. — Home Journal, New York, v*> 

One of the most valuable and attractive works of its kind piibISshed.~~50.rAjM £• 

Courier. (£, 

It is filled with valuable information. — Philadelphia Telegraph. <?) 

The work contains a vast amount of information calculated to aid the tourist $ 

and summer watering-place hunter. — St. Augustine (/'la.) Press. \i, 

Contains just what every visitor ought to know concerning the greatest watering $ 
place in the country. — Philadelphia Call. 

A complete description of the famous watering piece, — *" - 3> 

An excellent account of Atlantic City's many attractions.— P C«> 

Telegraph. & 

It gives a remarkable and interesting amount of information about that place £. 
of varied attractions. — Trenton State Gazette. 

It will be found of great value to all persons who contemplate visiting the !•£ 

famous resort. — Norristavon Herald. ja' 

It is an interesting guide to the attractions of the famous summer resort on the $ 
New Jersey coast. — Springfield Republican. 

It delights everybody by its thorough description of everything in and about r»5 

Atlantic City. — Jersey City Herald. f} 

The volume is something more than a mere Hand- Book. It has attractions and £ 

features which render it a valuable acquisition to the home or the cf5.ee, and as a $p) 

compendium of information on seaside topics it is the completed publication of ft) 

the kind of which we have any knowledge. — Camden Post, $ 

It has a great deal of valuable and useful information between its covets. — A 

Dcylestown [Pa.) Intelligencer. ,«> 

A very interesting and authentic little volume. — Mount Nolly (N.J.) A 

Of special value to all who visit the seashore. — West Chester (Pc) Republican, ^ 

It is profusely illustrated and contains a mass of information of special interest Cf> 
to the visitors to Atlantic City. — Monmouth (N. J. ) Democrat. 

It is replete with facts and information respecting the most popular- watering §5 

place in the country. — Camden (N.J.) Democrat. <& 

It is brimful of interesting facts about the City by the Sea—its history, various ® 

points of interest, the rates of different hotels, and maps showing 1: fa 

of the city and the location of ail the resorts along the jersey coas: v (j. 

Press. ' (J- - 

A beautiful and interesting Hand-Book of Atlantic City. — Scu'e/n (N.J.) Sun- [J| 

team. (», 

It is admirably written, and the author apparently covers everything of interest & 
pertaining to Atlantic City. — Wcodbuty (N.J.) Constitution. 

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